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- Title: For Want of a Hand: A Note on the "Hereditary House of Jin" and Sima Qian's "Chunqiu".
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 242 KB
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I. INTRODUCTION Shortly before his death Sima Tan [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (d. 110 B.C.) pointed to Confucius' work on the Chunqiu [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (Spring and Autumn [Annals]) and enjoined his son, Sima Qian [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (145--c. 86 B.C.), to "continue the Spring and Autumn [Annals]"[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]. (1) Indeed, in response to Hu Sui's [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] question about why Confucius composed the work--recorded in the famous "Postface" ("Taishigong zixu" [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII])--Sima Qian reveals both thorough knowledge of the Chunqiu and his respect for that classic text. (2) Yet he ends his lengthy dissertation on the text by warning, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, that Hu Sui would be mistaken to compare his writings to the Spring and Autumn. (3) Indeed, although none of this should be new to an audience so steeped in the Chinese tradition, what has been less explored in English is how Sima Qian used the Spring and Autumn and its commentarial tradition in writing his Shiji [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].