书名：Traces of Grand Peace: Classics and State Activism in Imperial China / 太平之迹：帝制中国的经典与政府改革
定价：510.0
ISBN：9780674088368
作者：Jaeyoon Song
版次：1
出版时间：2015-01

内容提要：
名：Traces of Grand Peace: Classics and State Activism in Imperial China / 太平之迹：帝制中国的经典与国家能动性
作者：Jaeyoon Song (宋在倫)
出版社：Harvard University Asia Center (哈佛大学亚洲中心，由哈佛大学出版社发行)，2015年
装帧：精装，450页（含18幅线图、8张表格）
语种：英文
尺寸：约 15.2*22.9 cm（6 x 9 英寸）

ISBN：978-0-6740-8836-8

简介
自公元前二世纪以来，历代王朝尊奉的儒家经典便与“大政府”的国家主义理想之间存在张力。在北宋时期（960-1127），一群具有改革意识的政治家和思想家试图通过重新审视《周礼》——这部描述古代官僚国家的行政蓝图——来消除这种张力。他们以修正主义的方法，将《周礼》重塑为国家积极作为的“宪法”。改革派大臣王安石（1021-1086）对《周礼》的新注在熙宁变法时期（约1068-1125）达到了巅峰，但随后便被历史湮没。本书通过从其残存文本中重构王荆公的经义，阐明经典、思想家与政府在国家主义改革中的互动，并解释为何在帝制中国，经典与国家主义之间这种不稳固的联姻终将失败。

Since the second century BC the Confucian Classics, endorsed by the successive ruling houses of imperial China, had stood in tension with the statist ideals of "big government." In Northern Song China (960–1127), a group of reform-minded statesmen and thinkers sought to remove the tension between the two by revisiting the highly controversial classic, the Rituals of Zhou: the administrative blueprint of an archaic bureaucratic state with the six ministries of some 370 offices staffed by close to 94,000 men. With their revisionist approaches, they reinvented it as the constitution of state activism. Most importantly, the reform-councilor Wang Anshi's (1021–1086) new commentary on the Rituals of Zhou rose to preeminence during the New Policies period (ca. 1068–1125), only to be swept into the dustbin of history afterward. By reconstructing his revisionist exegesis from its partial remains, this book illuminates the interplay between classics, thinkers, and government in statist reform, and explains why the uneasy marriage between classics and state activism had to fail in imperial China.