On Sacred Grounds

Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius

Edited by Thomas A. Wilson

    Table, Maps, Music Examples, and Figures

    Preface

    Contributors

    Maps

    Introduction: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Cult of Confucius

    Thomas A. Wilson

    PART I RITES AND MUSIC

    1. Ritualizing Confucius/Kongzi: The Family and State Cults of the Sage of Culture in Imperial China

    Thomas A. Wilson

    2. Destroying Confucius: Iconoclasm in the Confucian Temple

    Deborah Sommer

    3. Musical Confucianism: The case of 'Jikong yuewu'

    Joseph S. C. Lam

    PART II IMAGINING CONFUCIUS

    4. The Genesis of Kongzi in Ancient Narrative: The Figurative As Historical

    Lionel M. Jensen

    Varied Views of the Sage: Illustrated Narratives of the Life of Confucius

    Julia K. Murray

    PART III POLITICS AND SOCIETY

    6. The Cultural Politics of Autocracy: The Confucius Temple and Ming Despotism, 1368-1530

    Huang Chin-shing

    7. The Kongs of Qufu: Power and Privilege in Late Imperial China

    Abigail Lamberton

    PART IV THE PAST IN THE PRESENT

    8. Knowledge, Organization, and Symbolic Capital: Two Temples to Confucius in Gansu

    Jun Jing

    9. The Confucius Temple Tragedy of the Cultural Revolution

    Wang Liang

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Thomas A. Wilson is Associate Professor of History at Hamilton College.