Women and the transmission of confucian culture in song China

Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 123-141

  Zang, Jian ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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2. On the development of early Confucian thought, I have been inspired by the recent work of Yan Buke, who argues that the origins of rites (Kj were customs (su}. See Yan, " 'Lizhi' zhixu yu shidafu zhcngzhi de yuanyuan" (The relationship between ordering by rites and scholar-official politics), Guoxueyanjiu i (1993): 293-331
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