Dong Zhongshu

Vincent S. LEUNG

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Dong Zhongshu

Vincent S. LEUNG

Lingnan University

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Dong Zhongshu was a preeminent Confucian scholar of the early Han Empire, often credited with the development of imperial Confucianism as a state ideology. He argued for the singular importance of the Confucian classics as a repository of good governing principles, and the need for the state bureaucracy to staff itself with morally cultivated men. He also appealed to a model of correlative cosmology based on a dynamic interplay of yin–yang forces for his exegetical studies of the Confucian classics, especially the Spring and Autumn Annals.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa
Editors	D. T. POTTS, Ethan HARKNESS, Jason NEELIS, Roderick MCINTOSH
Publisher	John Wiley and Sons Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781119399919
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119399919.eahaa00640
Publication status	Published - 28 Oct 2021

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