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BYIn late 19th century China, an impassioned debate erupted over the authenticity of entire books included in the Confucian canon. This philological, philosophical, and political fracas has come to be known as the "second" chin wen/ku wen (usually translated as New Text/Old Text) controversy.' The seeds of the late Ch'ing chin wen/ku wen controversy lay in Yen Jo-ch'ü's (1636- 1704) conclusive demonstration that all the chapters included in the received ku wen Documents (now called the pseudo-K'ung edition and dated to the 4th c. A.D.) were inauthentic, except for those chapters with direct counterparts in Fu Sheng's fk§% chin wen recension.' Liu Feng-lu (1776-1829) subsequently ques-' See Liang Ch'i-ch'ao %lBSK , Intellectual Trends in the Ch'ing Period, trans. by Immanuel C.Y. Hsü (Cambridge, Harvard Univ., 1959), esp. pp. 85-98; Joseph Levenson, Confucian China and its Modern Fate (Berkeley, University of California, 1965), 3 vols., esp. I, 77-98; Benjamin Elman, From Philosophy to Philology : Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China (Cambridge, Harvard University, 1984); and Mark Elvin, "The Collapse of Scriptural Confucianism," Papers on Far Eastern History 41 (March, 1990), 45-76. In early Ch'ing, self-identified Confucians embracing widely divergent theories came to review Han materials
T'oung Pao – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1994
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