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The Five "Confucian" Classics by Michael Nylan is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Five "Confucian" Classics about?
The Five Classics associated with Confucius formed the core curriculum in the education of Chinese literati throughout most of the imperial period. In this book Michael Nylan offers a sweeping assessment of these ancient texts and shows how their influence spread across East Asia. Nylan begins by tracing the formation of the Five Classics canon in the pre-Han and Han periods, 206 B.C. to A.D. 220, revising standard views on the topic. She assesses the impact on this canon of the invention of a r
Who reads The Five "Confucian" Classics?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Michael Nylan
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786611722432
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Philosophy, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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