Mencius for Han Readers: Commentarial Features and Hermeneutical Strategies in Zhao Qi’s work on the Mencius

Fuehrer, Bernhard

Abstract

This paper explores hermeneutical strategies applied by Zhao Qi (d. 201) in his Mengzi Zhangju (Mencius: Chapters and verses). It surveys commentarial features of the earliest extant commentary on the Mencius and discusses examples of Zhao Qi's dealing with lexicon, orthography, grammar and syntax in his word glosses and translations from Zhou Chinese into contemporary parlance, which offer a window into the development of linguistic features of the Later Han period.

Citation

Fuehrer, B. (2014). Mencius for Han Readers: Commentarial Features and Hermeneutical Strategies in Zhao Qi’s work on the Mencius. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 164(2), 501-526. https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.164.2.0501

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Dec 14, 2015
• Journal: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft
• Print ISSN: 0341-0137
• Electronic ISSN: 2747-4402
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 164
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 501-526
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.164.2.0501