The Great Righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period: Imperial Power and Academics in the Traditional Chinese Context (2025 Edition)
by Xiong Yi
About This Novel
"Spring and Autumn" has long been revered as the supreme holy book of political philosophy in ancient China, and is considered to be the only Confucian classic compiled by Confucius himself. However, the "Spring and Autumn Annals" uses subtle words and great meanings to hide praise and criticism, which is very difficult to understand, especially as it has become more and more complicated after interpretations by classics scholars of the past dynasties. So how did "Spring and Autumn" and related classics play a practical role in an authoritarian society for two thousand years, and even influence the wind and rain? What kind of existence is the Spring and Autumn Period, which has always been regarded as the Chinese spirit? Xiong Yi starts from a murder case in the Tang Dynasty. Through a large number of vivid historical cases, using detailed textual research and meticulous logic, he reveals layer by layer how Chinese classic culture dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period, including "Spring and Autumn", "One Classic and Three Transmissions", "The Analects" and "Laozi", were distorted into tools of power under imperial politics. Xiong Yi plucked thousands of years of historical facts and classics at his fingertips, and allowed emperors, sages, dignitaries, generals, scribes and other people from different eras to have conversations across the air.
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