Journal article
Judgments of the Gentleman: A New Analysis of the Place of Junzi Comments in Zuozhuan Composition History
Monumenta serica, Vol.64(2), pp.277-302
07/02/2016
DOI: 10.1080/02549948.2016.1259819
Abstract
This study examines Zuozhuan narrative accounts that conclude with evaluations ascribed to the "Gentleman" (junzi 君子). The Zuozhuan is one of the earliest extant Chinese works of narrative history, and in the past many scholars assumed that narrative accounts formed its core, dismissing subjective evaluations of those accounts, such as the Gentleman's comments, as secondary, later additions. This study demonstrates that narrative account plus Gentleman judgment function together as a unit, contending that these units were likely introduced into the Zuozhuan as such. It further proposes that the perception that the Gentleman's concluding comments were later, independent additions was likely influenced by the practice of capping narrative accounts with quotations borrowed from other sources, and furthermore, suggests that this perception may have led compilers on occasion to insert material between the narrative accounts and the Gentleman's evaluations of them.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Judgments of the Gentleman: A New Analysis of the Place of Junzi Comments in Zuozhuan Composition History
- Creators
- Newell Ann Van Auken
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Monumenta serica, Vol.64(2), pp.277-302
- DOI
- 10.1080/02549948.2016.1259819
- ISSN
- 0254-9948
- eISSN
- 2057-1690
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/02/2016
- Academic Unit
- Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures; World Languages, Literatures and Cultures
- Record Identifier
- 9984002332802771
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