Papers presented at a conference convened at Rutgers University from October 10 to 12, 1996

Preface

Pt. 1 The Great Learning and Hermeneutics

1 Expanding the Tao: Chu Hsi's Commentary on the Ta-hsueh / John Berthrong 3

2 The Daxue at Issue: An Exercise of Onto-Hermeneutics (On Interpretation of Interpretations) / Chung-ying Cheng 23

3 Between Sanctioned Change and Fabrication: Confucian Canon (Ta-hsueh) and Hermeneutical Systems Since the Sung Times / Kai-wing Chow 45

Pt. 2 Canonicity and Orthodoxy

4 Touchstones of Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy / John B. Henderson 71

5 Scripture and Authority: The Political Dimension of Han Wu-ti's Canonization of the Five Classics / Yen-zen Tsai 85

6 Messenger of the Ancient Sages: Song-Ming Confucian Hermeneutics of the Canonical and the Heretical / Thomas A. Wilson 107

Pt. 3 Hermeneutics as Politics

7 The Confucian Classics: Kingship and Authority / Julia Ching 129

8 Objectivity, Truth, and Hermeneutics: Re-reading the Chunqiu / Q. Edward Wang 155

9 The Way of the Unadorned King: The Politics of Tung Chung-shu's Hermeneutics / Sarah A. Queen 173

10 Chinese Hermeneutics as Politics: The Sung Debates over the Mencius / Chun-chieh Huang 195

Pt. 4 Chu Hsi and the Interpretation of the Chinese Classics

11 To Know the Sages Better Than They Knew Themselves: Chu Hsi's "Romantic Hermeneutics" / Jonathan R. Herman 215

12 Historicity, Tradition, Praxis, and Tao: A Comparison of the World Views of Zhang Xuecheng and Modern Philosophical Hermeneutics / Chan-liang Wu 227

13 Chu Hsi Reading the Classics: Reading to Taste the Tao - "This Is ... A Pipe," After All / Matthew Arnold Levey 245

Pt. 5 Hermeneutics in Chinese Poetics and Non-Confucian Contexts

14 Chinese Lyric Subject in/and the Act of Interpretation: Toward Hermeneutics of Chih-yin / Ping-hui Liao 275

15 Textual Hermeneutics and Beyond: With the Tao-Te Ching and the Chuang Tzu as Examples / Kuang-ming Wu 291

16 Chung-yung in Northern Sung Intellectual Discourse: The Buddhist Components / Chi-chiang Huang 315

Pt. 6 Reinterpretations of Confucian Texts in the Ming-Ch'ing Period

17 Hermeneutics and Classicism: The New Script (jinwen) Learning of Gong Zizhen and Wei Yuan / On-Cho Ng 341

18 Mediating Word, Sentence, and Scope without Violence: James Legge's Understanding of "Classical Confucian" Hermeneutics / Lauren Pfister 371

19 Philosophical Hermeneutics and Political Reform: A Study of Kang Youwei's Use of Gongyang Confucianism / Young-tsu Wong 383

Pt. 7 Contemporary Interpretations of Confucian Culture

20 Mou Tsung-san's Interpretation of Confucianism: Some Hermeneutical Reflections / Ming-huei Lee 411

21 A Radical Hermeneutics of Chinese Literary Tradition: On Zhou Zuoren's Zhongguo xinwenxue de yuanliu / Xudong Zhang 427

Contributors 457

Index 461