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The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought SHIJING HOW THE SHAPED THE CHINESE PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION Michael Hunter THE POETICS OF EARLY CHINESE THOUGHT The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought HOW THE SHIJING SHAPED THE CHINESE PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION Michael Hunter Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press wishes to express its appreciation for assistance given by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and Council for Cultural Affairs in the publication of this book. Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex cup.columbia.edu Copyright © 2021 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Hunter, Michael, Ph.D., author. Title: The poetics of early Chinese thought : how the Shijing shaped the Chinese philosophical tradition / Michael Hunter. Description: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020051488 (print) | LCCN 2020051489 (ebook) | ISBN 9780231201223 (hardback ; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780231201230 (paperback ; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780231553995 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Shi jing. | Chinese poetry—To 221 B.C.—History and criticism. | Poetics. Classification: LCC PL2466.Z7 H86 2021 (print) | LCC PL2466.Z7 (ebook) | DDC 181/.11–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020051488 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020051489 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America Cover image: Bi Disk, 206 bce–220 ce, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Bequest of Alfred E. Pillsbury. Public domain image. For James and Kieran CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix Introduction 1 Chapter One Reading the Shi 17 Chapter Two A Poetry of Return 35 Chapter Three Shi Poetics Beyond the Shi 83 Chapter Four The Shi and the Verses of Chu (Chuci 楚辭) 139 Chapter Five Comparing Canons: The Shi Versus the Masters 168 Conclusion A Classic of N/Odes 189 NOTES 193 BIBLIOGRAPHY 213 INDEX 225 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My sincerest thanks to Tina Lu for steering this project in the right direc- tion; to Luke Bender for his critical feedback at every step in its evolu- tion; to Paul North for keeping me (mostly) sane; to Aaron Gerow for his advocacy when it mattered most; to Ed Kamens and Kang-i Sun Chang for their mentorship; to Nick Admussen for being such a dependable sounding board; to Christine Dunbar at Columbia University Press for her enthu- siastic and unwavering support; to the team at KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. for their editing prowess; to the anonymous reviewers who rescued me from many embarrassing mistakes; to Fritz-Heiner Mutschler for invit- ing me to the Homer’s Epics and the Book of Songs conference at Beijing University in 2014, which prompted my reengagement with the Shijing; and to the East Asian Studies communities at Princeton, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Cornell and the University of British Columbia for their invalu- able feedback. Special thanks to my Princeton advisers Willard Peterson and Martin Kern, whose work on early intellectual typologies and the Shijing, respec- tively, were the dual inspirations for this book. Finally, thank you to Catherine for making all of this possible and worthwhile.
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