Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire
Language: English
Published by State University of New York Press, 2015
Series: Book 113 of 193 - SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
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- Title
- Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire
- Author
- Cai, Liang
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- VERY GOOD
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1438448503
- ISBN 13
- 9781438448503
- Item weight
- 23 ounces
- Series
- Book 113 of 193: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
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Winner of the 2014 Academic Award for Excellence presented by Chinese Historians in the United States
When did Confucianism become the reigning political ideology of imperial China? A pervasive narrative holds it was during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (141–87 BCE). In this book, Liang Cai maintains that such a date would have been too early and provides a new account of this transformation. A hidden narrative in Sima Qian's The Grand Scribe's Records (Shi ji) shows that Confucians were a powerless minority in the political realm of this period. Cai argues that the notorious witchcraft scandal of 91–87 BCE reshuffled the power structure of the Western Han bureaucracy and provided Confucians an opportune moment to seize power, evolve into a new elite class, and set the tenor of political discourse for centuries to come.
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