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Acknowledgments vii List of Contributors viii Introduction: Ideology and Power in Early China 1 Yuri Pines Part One: The Foundations: Unity, Heaven, and Ancestral Models 1 Representations of Regional Diversity during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty 31 Paul R. Goldin 2 Omens and Politics: The Zhou Concept of the Mandate of Heaven as Seen in the Chengwu Manuscript 49 Luo Xinhui 3 Long Live The King! The Ideology of Power between Ritual and Morality in the Gongyang zhuan 69 Joachim Gentz 4 Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the Canon of Yao 118 Martin Kern Part Two: Textual Battles: Rulers, Ministers, and the People 5 Monarch and Minister: The Problematic Partnership in the Building of Absolute Monarchy in the Han Feizi 155 Romain Graziani 6 The Changing Role of the Minister in the Warring States: Evidence from the Yanzi chunqiu 181 Scott Cook 7 Ideologies of the Peasant and Merchant in Warring States China 211 Roel Sterckx 8 Population Records from Liye: Ideology in Practice 249 Charles Sanft Epilogue: Ideological Authority in China: Past and Present 9 Political and Intellectual Authority: The Concept of the Sage-Monarch and Its Modern Fate 273 Liu Zehua Bibliography 301 Index 337

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