Mao Qiling's critical reflections on the Four Books

Lauren F. Pfister*

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    Abstract

    After introducing some scholarship on the value of Mao Qiling’s (1623–1713) works, we present an account of canonization processes in order to understand the hermeneutic context of Mao’s battle with the Cheng-Zhu orthodoxy. His work is an attempt to decanonizing Zhu Xi’s Four Books, preferring instead an alternative relying on the Old Texts of the Taixue《太學》/Daxue《大學》 and Zhongyong 《中庸》. Mao argues against Zhu Xi’s textual changes and interpretations on a number of bases, producing a hermeneutics of suspicion against the Cheng-Zhu orthodoxy. Instead, Mao offers an alternative account of the sagely way, following precedents of Wang Yangming.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)323-339
    Number of pages17
    JournalJournal of Chinese Philosophy
    Volume40
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2013

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    • Philosophy

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