The craft of oblivion

• Titel: The craft of oblivion
• Titelzusatz: forgetting and memory in ancient China
• Mitwirkende: Galvany, Albert [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Albert Galvany
• Verlagsort: Albany
• Verlag: SUNY Press
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: [2023]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 366 Seiten)
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
• Fussnoten: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9377-0
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: The craft of oblivion. - Albany : State University of New York Press, 2023. - pages cm
• Sach-SW: Electronic books
• K10plus-PPN: 1851868127
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Historiographical and Political Narratives -- Part II: Philosophical Writings -- Part III: Ritual and Literary Texts -- Notes -- Part I. Historiographical and Political Narratives -- Chapter 1 Cultural Amnesia and Commentarial Retrofitting: Interpreting the Spring and Autumn -- Linguistic Change: The Case of ji 及 -- Interpretive Change: The Case of ren 人 -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Elision and Narration: Remembering and Forgetting in Some Recently Unearthed Historiographical Manuscripts -- The Rongchengshi -- *Xinian -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Shaping the Historian's Project: Language of Forgetting and Obliteration in the Shiji -- Forgetting: Salient and Undesired -- Obliteration and Creative Construction -- Transmission and "Silent" Forgetting -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Ice of Memory and the Fires of Forgetfulness: Traumatic Recollections in the Wu Yue chunqiu -- Narrative Structures in the Wu Yue chunqiu -- King Fuchai of Wu -- King Goujian of Yue -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II. Philosophical Writings -- Chapter 5 The Daode jing's Forgotten Forebear: The Ancestral Cult -- I. Ritualized Forgetting and the Ancestral Cult -- A. The Orderly Sacrificing Descendants -- B. The Ancestors from Near to Far -- C. The Always-Remembered Progenitor -- II. Philosophical Forgetting and the Daode jing -- III. Establishing the Daode jing's Paternity -- The Dead as Remembered Spirits: Daode Jing 33 -- The Potential for Spirits to Fade Away: Daode Jing 39 -- Moving Upward from Living Sages to Spirits to Ghosts: Chapter 60 -- The Unforgotten Progenitor at the Top of the Lineage: Chapter 21 -- Boring stew and the Bland Dao: Chapter 35 -- The Dao and the De: Chapter 1 -- Conclusion -- Notes.