{"product_id":"classics-and-interpretations-ching-i-tu-9781560004318","title":"Classics and Interpretations: The Hermeneutic Traditions in Chinese Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn recent years in the \"West,\" scholars have attempted to unravel old constructs of interpretation and understanding, using the discipline of hermeneutics, or the scientific study of textual interpretation. Borrowed from students of the ever growing body of biblical interpretive literature that originated in the early Christian era, theoretical hermeneutics has given many contemporary scholars potent tools of textual interpretation. \u003cem\u003eClassics and Interpretations\u003c\/em\u003e applies this method to Chinese culture. Several essays focus on hermeneutic traditions of Neo-Confucianism. Others move outside of these traditions to attempt an understanding of the role of hermeneutics in Taoist and Buddhist textual interpretation, in Chinese poetics and painting, and in contemporary Chinese culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume makes a concerted effort to remedy our ignorance of the Chinese hermeneutical tradition. Part 1, \"\u003cem\u003eThe Great Learning\u003c\/em\u003e and Hermeneutics,\" demonstrates the use of commentary to define how the individual creates his social self, and discusses differing interpretations of the \u003cem\u003eTa-hsueh\u003c\/em\u003e text and its treatment as either canonical or heterodox. Part 2, \"Canonicity and Orthodoxy,\" considers the philosophical touchstones employed by Neo-Confucian canonical exegetes and polemicists, and discusses the Han canonization of the scriptural Five Classics, while illuminating a double standard that existed in the hermeneutical regime of late imperial China. Part 3, \"Hermeneutics as Politics,\" discusses the transformation of both the classics and scholars, and explores the dominant hermeneutic tradition in Chinese historiography, the scriptural tradition and reinterpretation of the \u003cem\u003eCh'un-ch'iu\u003c\/em\u003e, and reveals the pragmatism of Chinese hermeneutics through comparison of the Sung debates over the \u003cem\u003eMencius.\u003c\/em\u003e The concluding sections include essays on \"Chu Hsi and Interpretation of Chinese Classics,\" \"Hermeneutic Traditions in Chinese Poetics and Non-Confucian Contexts,\" \"Reinterpretation of Confucian Texts in the Ming-Ch'ing Period,\" and \"Contemporary Interpretations of Confucian Culture.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough these literate and brilliantly written essays the reader witnesses not merely the great breadth and depth of Chinese hermeneutics but also its continuity and evolutionary vigor. This volume will excite scholars of the Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist systems of thought and belief as well as students of history and hermeneutics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ching-I Tu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1560004312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781560004318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.30d","brand":"Ching-I Tu","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088561090815,"sku":"9781560004318","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0d72797c-58ab-43c8-903d-a1fa4871ae7d.jpg?v=1769105452","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/classics-and-interpretations-ching-i-tu-9781560004318","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}