| Status | 已發表Published |
| To Become the King of All under Heaven: Mengzi as a Strategist of Regime Subversion | |
| Lee, T. M. | |
| 2021 | |
| Source Publication | Critique, Subversion, and Chinese Philosophy: Sociopolitical, Conceptual, and Methodological Challenges |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Pages | 89-98 |
| Abstract | Scholars of classical Chinese philosophy work primarily on texts composed and/or redacted during the Warring States period (480-221 BC) and early imperial China (ca. 221BC-AD 8). These texts were produced in a remote past about which little is known to us today, thus we are cognizant of the danger of not knowing the historical, linguistic, and philological facts that may be crucial for understanding the texts and often reminded that the surviving literature does not permit a clear characterization of classical Chinese philosophy. Such “ignorance” might be productive in that it gives us room for experimenting various possible readings of the texts. Thus, it is not always a serious danger so long as we are aware of it and are cautious with the limitation of our interpretive enterprise. However, negligence of certain inconspicuous historical or textual information can sometimes prevent us from making sense of a text by reading it within a context to which it does not belong. This chapter draws on the case study of the book Mengzi 孟子 (Master Meng), arguing that because we often overlook certain historical and philological facts, we fail to notice that the figure Mengzi, as he is presented in the Mengzi, could be appropriately described as a strategist and theorist of regime subversion, a man like Duke Tai (Tai Gong 太公) as depicted in the military text Liutao 六弢 (Six Bow Cases, also known as Liutao 六韜). The following will first explore oft-forgotten facts concerning the intimate relationship and salient resonance between today’s widely studied classical “philosophical texts” and classical “military texts” (or “strategic manuals”). The second part continues to present the characteristics of Mengzi as a strategist of military subversion, which is frequently overlooked because the intimacy of the two groups of texts is often neglected. |
| Keyword | Mencius Strategy classical Chinese philosophy |
| Language | 英語English |
| ISBN | 9781350115842 |
| The Source to Article | PB_Publication |
| PUB ID | 56928 |
| Document Type | Book chapter |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Lee, T. M.. To Become the King of All under Heaven: Mengzi as a Strategist of Regime Subversion[M]. Critique, Subversion, and Chinese Philosophy: Sociopolitical, Conceptual, and Methodological Challenges:Bloomsbury, 2021, 89-98. |
| APA | Lee, T. M..(2021). To Become the King of All under Heaven: Mengzi as a Strategist of Regime Subversion. Critique, Subversion, and Chinese Philosophy: Sociopolitical, Conceptual, and Methodological Challenges, 89-98. |
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