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Essays of a Recluse

A Complete Translation of the Qianfulun

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvFu Wang,Anne Behnke Kinney,John Major,Early China) Kinney, Anne Behnke (Book Review Editor

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Under the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE), a self-described recluse wrote a series of essays denouncing the evils of his time. Assailing corruption, misrule, and neglect of the common people, Wang Fu’s Essays of a Recluse (Qianfulun) offers a rare outsider view of culture, society, and government during this period. This book presents the first full English translation of the Qianfulun, one of the most significant works to survive from the Eastern Han period.Wang’s essays range across moral philosophy, cosmology, education, military affairs, and conflict in the borderlands. The essays decry governmental corruption and rampant litigiousness, as well as the callous neglect of the poor and the exploitation of women. To remedy these failures, Wang Fu calls for heeding the wisdom of the classics and implementing procedures for recruiting worthy officials. His focused interest in the common people and sensitivity to their travails make Essays of a Recluse a rich source of information about daily life during the Eastern Han period, providing insights into folk religion, divination, marriage practices, and the legal system. Widely admired in his lifetime, Wang’s essays were later singled out by Han Yu (768–824 CE) as one of the three great works of the period. Anne Behnke Kinney and John S. Major’s expert translation makes an important but notoriously complex and difficult work accessible to a range of English-language readers.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-06-03
Mått140 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieTranslations from the Asian Classics
Antal sidor624
FörlagColumbia University Press
ISBN9780231220323

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Wang Fu (ca. 85–162 CE) was a scholar who lived on the western frontier of the empire during the Eastern Han dynasty. Said to be the son of a low-ranking concubine, he never held an official government post. The Qianfulun is his only surviving work.Anne Behnke Kinney is professor of Chinese at the University of Virginia. She is translator of Exemplary Women of Early China: The Lienü zhuan of Liu Xiang (Columbia, 2014), among other books.John S. Major, formerly professor of history at Dartmouth College, is an independent scholar. He is cotranslator of The Huainanzi (Columbia, 2010), among other books.

ChronologyTranslators’ IntroductionEssays of a ReclusePreface1. 讚學 In Praise of Study2. 務本 Concentrating on the Root3. 遏利 Suppressing Profit4. 論榮 Appraising Eminence5. 賢難 The Difficulties of the Worthy6. 明闇 The Enlightened and the Unenlightened7. 考績 Evaluating Merit8. 思賢 Thinking About the Worthy9. 本政 The Fundamentals of Government10. 潛歎 The Sighs of a Recluse11. 忠貴 Loyalty and Nobility12. 浮侈 On Excessive Luxury13. 慎微 Taking Care Over Minutiae14. 實貢 Substance and Recommendation15. 班祿 Ranked Emoluments16. 述赦 On Amnesties17. 三式 The Three Models18. 愛日 Using [the People’s] Time Sparingly19. 斷訟 Judging Legal Cases20. 衰制 Governing in an Age of Decline21. 勸將 Exhorting Generals22. 救邊 Securing the Frontier23. 邊議 Discussions of the Frontier24. 實邊 Populating the Frontier25. 卜列 Divination Set Forth26. 巫列 Spirit Mediums Set Forth27. 相列 Physiognomy Set Forth28. 夢列 Dreams Set Forth29. 釋難 Explicating Difficulties30. 交際 On Social Relations31. 明忠 Enlightenment and Loyalty32. 本訓 Teachings on the Root33. 德化 Transformation Through Virtue34. 五德志 Treatise on the Five Powers35. 志氏姓 A Record of Lineage and Clan Names36. 敘錄 PostfaceNotesBibliographyIndex

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