{"product_id":"the-great-commentary-on-the-fan-lin-9780295753041","title":"The Great Commentary on the Documents Classic \/ Shangshu Dazhuan\u0026#23578;\u0026#26360;\u0026#22823;\u0026#20659;","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn early commentary on one of the Chinese Five Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eDocuments\u003c\/i\u003e classic (\u003ci\u003eShangshu\u003c\/i\u003e) was central to the political life of imperial China. This owed much to the lively commentarial activity surrounding the text in the first two centuries BCE. The \u003ci\u003eGreat Commentary\u003c\/i\u003e serves as a lens on this commentarial work and reveals how the \u003ci\u003eDocuments\u003c\/i\u003e classic was used to provide answers to pressing societal questions of the time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this first English translation of the \u003ci\u003eGreat Commentary\u003c\/i\u003e, Fan Lin and Griet Vankeerberghen engage with the historical realities that produced the work. They explore the complex relationship between the \u003ci\u003eDocuments\u003c\/i\u003e classic and its commentarial traditions at a time when neither classic nor commentary had acquired fixed form. They view Master Fu (260?-161? BCE), the Han court academician to whom the \u003ci\u003eGreat Commentary\u003c\/i\u003e is traditionally ascribed, not as the text's author but rather as the figure who lent his authority to subsequent generations of \u003ci\u003eDocuments\u003c\/i\u003e scholars. Lin and Vankeerberghen also trace how late imperial scholars reconstructed the text largely from fragments in collectanea. With facing pages of Chinese and English text, this volume provides a comprehensive introduction and detailed annotation that reveal the work's relevance to law, prognostication, and politics, along with its value as an important source for the study of the classical tradition and of early Chinese history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fan Lin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295753048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295753041\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Fan Lin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46640774414591,"sku":"9780295753041","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9938261f-3927-47c0-ae96-917883b65953.jpg?v=1740670485","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-great-commentary-on-the-fan-lin-9780295753041","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}