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New Confucianism and New History: The Song Dynasty in Ten Classics
Reading Chinese Classics, Season 11
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Yang Zhao: Why Am I Spending Ten Years Discussing the Chinese Classics? The Song Dynasty: A Moment of Cultural Reinvention in China Neo-Confucianism: A New Way of Understanding the World 1.1 How Did Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism Reconstruct the Metaphysical Foundations of Confucianism? 1.2 Accumulating Righteousness, Nurturing Vital Energy, and Transcending Life and Death: What Should We Watch for in Self-Cultivation? | Principles in the Study of the Classics: The Great Foundation of Learning, Part 1 1.3 Why Do People Intent on Great Achievements Sometimes End Up Accomplishing Nothing? | Principles in the Study of the Classics: The Great Foundation of Learning, Part 2 1.4 How Can We Exercise Independent Judgment and Think for Ourselves While Learning? | Principles in the Study of the Classics: The Great Foundation of Learning, Part 3 1.5 From the Cosmic Order to Private Thoughts: What Is Troubling You? | Principles in the Study of the Classics: The Great Foundation of Learning, Part 4 1.6 Could Your Worries Be Shaping the Person Only You Can Be? | Principles in the Study of the Classics: The Great Foundation of Learning, Part 5 1.7 Always Conforming to the World? The Courage You Need Most Is to Stay True to Your Heart | Principles in the Study of the Classics: The Great Foundation of Learning, Part 6 1.8 How Can We Live, Learn, and Change the World with Dignity? | Principles in the Study of the Classics: The Great Foundation of Learning, Part 7 1.9 How Did Zhang Zai Recast the Confucian View of the Cosmos? | Correcting the Unenlightened: Supreme Harmony, Part 1 1.10 In a World of Ceaseless Change, How Can Inner Illumination Help Us See Clearly? | Correcting the Unenlightened: Supreme Harmony, Part 2 2.1 Did the Cheng Brothers Really Deserve the Blame for the Claim That "Confucian Rites Devour People"? 2.2 How Was Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation Practiced in Official Life? 2.3 Facing Imperial Power, How Did Cheng Yi Display the Character of a Neo-Confucian Scholar? 2.4 Trapped in Overthinking? Cheng Hao's Method for Finding Peace | Surviving Works of the Cheng Brothers, Part 1 2.5 Only by Finding Something More Important Than Staying Alive Can We Overcome the Fear of Life and Death | Surviving Works of the Cheng Brothers, Part 2 2.6 After Grasping Principle, Should We Depart or Return? | Surviving Works of the Cheng Brothers, Part 3 2.7 Entering Fully into Life and Making Self-Cultivation an Everyday Practice | Surviving Works of the Cheng Brothers, Part 4 2.8 Does True Wisdom in Dealing with the World Lie in Technique or in the Heart? | Surviving Works of the Cheng Brothers, Part 5 2.9 Struggling to Sustain Self-Cultivation? Perhaps You Are Heading in the Wrong Direction | Surviving Works of the Cheng Brothers, Part 6 2.10 How Can We Cultivate Ourselves and Put the Way into Practice in Different Eras? | Surviving Works of the Cheng Brothers, Part 7 2.11 Is Neo-Confucian Knowledge an Inner Awakening or External Learning? | Surviving Works of the Cheng Brothers, Part 8 2.12 How Can We Leave Arduous Practice Behind and Make Self-Cultivation a Source of Joy? | Surviving Works of the Cheng Brothers, Part 9 2.13 Capable Minister or Guilty Man? Sima Guang and Cheng Yi Debate Wei Zheng | Surviving Works of the Cheng Brothers, Part 10 2.14 After Learning, Do You Simply Know More, or Have You Become a New Person? | Surviving Works of the Cheng Brothers, Part 11 2.15 Can Rich Sensory Experience and the Joy of Life Be Found within Neo-Confucianism? | Surviving Works of the Cheng Brothers, Part 12 3.1 What Kind of Historical World Produced the Vast and Many-Sided Zhu Xi? 3.2 How Did the Confucian Literati Ideal Develop and Change During the Song Dynasty? 3.3 How Did the Decline and Renewal of the Song Literati Ideal Prepare the Ground for Zhu Xi's Social Education? 3.4 After Leaving the Imperial Court, What Future Awaited the Ideal of Awakening the People and Practicing the Way? 3.5 In Troubled Times, Should One Protect Oneself or Uphold Righteousness at Any Cost? | Recorded Conversations of Master Zhu, Part 1 3.6 Rather Than Clinging to Particular Facts, Awaken the Perception of Life | Recorded Conversations of Master Zhu, Part 2 3.7 How Did the Scholarly Commitment to Recovering the Sage's Original Meaning Challenge Legends About the Book of Changes? | Recorded Conversations of Master Zhu, Part 3 3.8 Why Was Zhu Xi Especially Critical of Lu Jiuyuan? | Recorded Conversations of Master Zhu, Part 4 3.9 When Reading Books Becomes Being Read by Books, How Can We Defend Independent Thought and Master Knowledge? | Recorded Conversations of Master Zhu, Part 5 3.10 In Troubled Times, How Should a Noble Person Balance Withdrawal and Engagement? | Recorded Conversations of Master Zhu, Part 6 3.11 Why Did Zhu Xi Criticize Guan Zhong's Limited Capacity? | Recorded Conversations of Master Zhu, Part 7 3.12 Zhu Xi's Textual Research and Probing Questions: How Can Self-Cultivation and Learning Produce Genuine Insight? | Recorded Conversations of Master Zhu, Part 8 3.13 Does Achieving Humanity Depend on Sudden Enlightenment or Steady Daily Practice? | Recorded Conversations of Master Zhu, Part 9 3.14 How Did Zhu Xi and His Students Refine One Another's Ideas in the Search for True Knowledge? | Recorded Conversations of Master Zhu, Part 10 3.15 If Principle Transcends All Things, How Does It Also Dwell within the Human Heart? | Recorded Conversations of Master Zhu, Part 11 4.1 An Alternative Path for Song Literati: How Did Lu Jiuyuan Become a Great Confucian Thinker? 4.2 How Did Lu Xiangshan Open a New Intellectual Path from the Tradition of the Cheng Brothers? 4.3 What Was Actually Debated at the Famous Meeting at Goose Lake? 4.4 Once Learning Grasps the Root, All Six Classics Become Footnotes to Me | Recorded Sayings of Xiangshan, Part 1 4.5 Rethinking the Original Heart Through Zigong, a Man Burdened by His Own Cleverness: Is Self-Cultivation Addition or Subtraction? | Recorded Sayings of Xiangshan, Part 2 4.6 Restrain the Self and Return to Ritual to Achieve Humanity: What Are We Really Learning When We Study Ritual? | Recorded Sayings of Xiangshan, Part 3 4.7 Amid Limitless Principle, How Can We Find Our Own Path of Practice? | Recorded Sayings of Xiangshan, Part 4 4.8 From Personal Moral Nature to Public Politics: The Unfinished Journey of Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism | Recorded Sayings of Xiangshan, Part 5 4.9 Learning and Character: Where Did Lu Jiuyuan and Zhu Xi Differ Most? | Recorded Sayings of Xiangshan, Part 6 4.10 Were the Factional Divisions Among Song Literati a Split Waiting to Happen? | Recorded Sayings of Xiangshan, Part 7 4.11 In Lu Xiangshan's View, What Counted as Heresy in Learning? | Recorded Sayings of Xiangshan, Part 8 4.12 What Should Good Historical Time Look Like? | Recorded Sayings of Xiangshan, Part 9 4.13 What Principles Guide Friendship with People and Communion with Principle? | Recorded Sayings of Xiangshan, Part 10 4.14 The Spirit of the Ancients Lay in Devotion and Freedom from Carelessness | Recorded Sayings of Xiangshan, Part 11 4.15 To Read Neo-Confucianism Is to Read Ourselves at Close Range | Recorded Sayings of Xiangshan, Part 12 5.1 How Did a Remarkable Book Compiled over More Than a Century Reassess Neo-Confucianism? 5.2 How Does Learning Cases of the Song and Yuan Portray the Many Currents of Confucianism in the Song Dynasty? 5.3 How Did Hu Yuan, One of the Three Masters of the Early Song, Pioneer Neo-Confucianism? | The Anding Learning Case, Part 1 5.4 Independent Thought as a Form of Wisdom in Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism | The Anding Learning Case, Part 2 5.5 How Did an Unsuccessful Recluse on Mount Tai Become a Founder of Neo-Confucianism? | The Taishan Learning Case, Part 1 5.6 Bolder Than Mencius: What Fate Did Shi Jie's Fearless Outspokenness Bring Him? | The Taishan Learning Case, Part 2 5.7 How Did the Boy Who Smashed a Vat to Save a Friend Grow Up to Lead the Conservative Faction? | The Sushui Learning Case, Part 1 5.8 Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance: A History of Statecraft Written Especially for Emperors | The Sushui Learning Case, Part 2 5.9 Why Did Sima Guang Become More Beloved by the People After Leaving the Center of the Court? | The Sushui Learning Case, Part 3 5.10 How Was Sima Guang's Image Constructed, Attacked, and Reconstructed During and After His Lifetime? | The Sushui Learning Case, Part 4 5.11 How Did the Cheerful, Well-Traveled Shao Yong Become a Great Confucian Scholar? | The Baiyuan Learning Case, Part 1 5.12 How Did Shao Yong's Study of Images and Numbers Lead to the Idea That the Supreme Ultimate Is My Own Mind? | The Baiyuan Learning Case, Part 2 5.13 How Did Shao Yong and Zhou Dunyi Together Illuminate Principle and Sincerity? | The Lianxi Learning Case, Part 1 5.14 From Explanation of the Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate to the Joy of Confucius and Yan Hui, What Ultimate Question Was Zhou Dunyi Asking? | The Lianxi Learning Case, Part 2 5.15 Neo-Confucianism Flourished Through an Intellectual Spirit of Tracing Ideas Back to Their Sources | The Lianxi Learning Case, Part 3 Yang Zhao: Fortunately, I Was Never Qualified to Be a Professor, So I Could Focus on Being a Teacher 6.1 Why Has a Literati Notebook That Inherited the Spirit of Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance Long Been Neglected by Historians? 6.2 Writing History for an Emperor: What Purpose and Care Did Sima Guang Bring to Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance? 6.3 How Does Records from Sushui Describe the Mutiny at Chen Bridge Through Its Historical Technique? | Records from Sushui, Part 1 6.4 How Many Suspicious Details Lay Behind the Yellow Robe Draped over the New Emperor? | Records from Sushui, Part 2 6.5 How Did the Lessons of Earlier Dynasties Warn the Rulers of the Song? | Records from Sushui, Part 3 6.6 What Kind of Emperor Was Zhao Kuangyin? | Records from Sushui, Part 4 6.7 Was the Emperor Made to Read History So That He Would Fear Its Judgment? | Records from Sushui, Part 5 6.8 How Did Emperor Taizu of Song Consolidate Power and Turn the Threat of Military Command into Peace for the Realm? | Records from Sushui, Part 6 7.1 How Should History Be Organized? A Survey of the Major Forms of Chinese Historical Writing 7.2 The Historical Vision of Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance: Wisdom from History Rather Than Historical Facts? 7.3 What Details Should We Notice When Reading Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance? | Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Part 1 7.4 Amid Conflict Between North and South, How Did the Sui Establish Itself and Gradually Grow? | Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Part 2 7.5 What Preparations Did Emperor Wen of Sui Make to Conquer Chen and Reunify North and South? | Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Part 3 7.6 As the Sui Ruler Turned His Sights South, Why Did Infighting at the Southern Chen Court Intensify? | Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Part 4 7.7 What Political Lessons Did Sima Guang Seek to Convey Through His Account of the Fall of Chen? | Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Part 5 7.8 How Did the Purpose of Aiding Governance Shape the Compilation of Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance? | Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Part 6 7.9 Why Was Buddhism Repeatedly Suppressed in Imperial China, and Why Did Those Campaigns Repeatedly Fail? | Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Part 7 7.10 Restructuring Political Power Between the Tang and Song: Why Could the Tang Court Not Effectively Suppress Buddhism? | Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Part 8 7.11 In a Struggle for Power, How Did Li Shimin's Choices Lead Step by Step to the Xuanwu Gate Incident? | Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Part 9 7.12 In the Contest Among the Princes, What Enabled Li Shimin to Prevail and Seize the Realm? | Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Part 10 7.13 The Xuanwu Gate Incident: A Long-Planned Military Operation | Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Part 11 7.14 After the Coup, How Did Li Shimin's Faction Transfer Power? | Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Part 12 8.1 Reflections on Reading the Comprehensive Mirror: Interpreting History Rather Than Establishing Its Facts 8.2 Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance as a Mirror for Everyone | Reflections on Reading the Comprehensive Mirror, Part 1 8.3 The Xuanwu Gate Incident as an Unavoidable Family Tragedy | Reflections on Reading the Comprehensive Mirror, Part 2 8.4 Why Did Confucius Prefer to Discuss Principles Rather Than Methods? | Reflections on Reading the Comprehensive Mirror, Part 3 8.5 History Has No Standard Answers: Did Mencius's Theories Also Have a Limited Shelf Life? | Reflections on Reading the Comprehensive Mirror, Part 4 New Year's Message: Holding Back the Wall in an Ever-Narrowing World 8.6 Is So-Called Historical Orthodoxy Simply a Lie? | Reflections on Reading the Comprehensive Mirror, Part 5 8.7 Historical Insight and Self-Respect Made Reflections on Reading the Comprehensive Mirror Both Profound and Unconventional | Reflections on Reading the Comprehensive Mirror, Part 6 9.1 Zhao Kuangyin: A Dynasty Founder Unworthy of His Position? | Reflections on the Song, Part 1 9.2 Did Zhao Kuangyin's Apparent Weakness Make the Song Dynasty Possible? | Reflections on the Song, Part 2 9.3 As the Ethos of the Scholar Declined, Why Did Emperor Taizu of Song Place Greater Value on Literati? | Reflections on the Song, Part 3 9.4 How Could a Ruler Restore Standards Among Scholars Who Had Given Up on Themselves? | Reflections on the Song, Part 4 9.5 Why Did Wang Fuzhi Harshly Criticize Wang Anshi for Urging Emperor Shenzong to Emulate Yao and Shun? | Reflections on the Song, Part 5 9.6 What Problems Did Wang Anshi's Attitude Toward Yao and Shun Reveal? | Reflections on the Song, Part 6 9.7 How Did Wang Fuzhi Distinguish the Noble Person from the Petty Person? | Reflections on the Song, Part 7 9.8 Why Did Emperor Shenzong of Song Feel Compelled to Choose the Ruthlessly Pragmatic Wang Anshi? | Reflections on the Song, Part 8 10.1 Why Read The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor? The Early-Modern Character of the Song Through the City and the Marketplace 10.2 Behind the Northern Song's Reputation for Weakness, What Vision of Prosperity Did It Create? | The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor, Part 1 10.3 The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor as the Southern Song's Remembrance of Things Past | The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor, Part 2 10.4 A Cook Called a Doctor? The Colorful People of Northern Song Restaurants | The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor, Part 3 10.5 Did Even Beggars Wear Uniforms in Bianjing? The Fine-Grained Network of Northern Song Urban Services | The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor, Part 4 10.6 Tea-Flask-Carrying Messengers of Gossip? A Distinctive Northern Song Urban Custom | The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor, Part 5 10.7 Was Street Hawking a Performance Art in Bianjing? Northern Song's Flourishing Entertainment World | The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor, Part 6 10.8 Did Lantern Festival Celebrations Begin Right After the Winter Solstice? Northern Song's Lively Prelude to the Festival | The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor, Part 7 10.9 Bianjing's Liveliest Night? The Lantern Festival Shared by the Emperor and His People | The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor, Part 8 10.10 After the Lanterns Went Out, Where Did the Festivities Move? The Lingering Celebration on the Sixteenth Day | The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor, Part 9 10.11 Music and Revelry All Night at a Temple? The Sixteenth-Day Festival at Xiangguo Temple | The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor, Part 10 10.12 Did the Emperor Want Two Lantern Festivals? Celebrations That Continued After the Holiday | The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor, Part 11 10.13 After the Lanterns Were Put Away, Did the Whole City Become a Garden? Bianjing's Spring Began Beyond the Walls | The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor, Part 12 10.14 Did the Emperor Lend His Gardens to the Entire City? A Special Sight on the First Day of the Third Month | The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor, Part 13 10.15 A Thousand-Person Exorcism in the Imperial Palace? New Year's Eve in Bianjing | The Eastern Capital: A Dream of Splendor, Part 14