Dialogues and Narratives Surrounding Confucius and His Disciples in the Shanghai Museum Manuscripts (上博楚簡有關孔子師徒的對話與故事)

Abstract

This article is a study of narratives and dialogues surrounding Confucius and his disciples in the Shanghai Museum Manuscripts, focusing on their relationship with received texts, as well as their periodization and genre division. The Shanghai Museum narratives seem to be situated between Lun yu (Analects) and Han Shi waizhuan (Han Ying’s Outer Commentary to the Poetry), in that they are not as succinct and precise as the former, but also not overly elaborate like the latter. These narratives are possibly the work of Confucians from the mid to late Warring States period. 通過討論上博簡中孔子與顔淵、子路、子貢等的對話或故事與經典的關係及其文字屬性問題,本文認爲其中有關內容,介於《論語》與《韓詩外傳》諸書之間,不如前者精煉、準確,又不像後者鋪陳太過。這可能就是戰國中後期的儒家作品。