Recipients of the Mandate: Contradictory Narratives in Baoxun(Instructions for Preservation) and Chengwu(Awakening at Cheng)

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10.2991/978-2-38476-319-1_3How to use a DOI?

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Tsinghua Slips; Mandate of Heaven; Eastern Zhou Ideology

Abstract

This essay explores two texts from the Tsinghua Slips, Baoxun and Chengwu, which offer conflicting views on the recipients of the Mandate. Baoxun portrays King Wen as the sole recipient, while Chengwu presents both King Wen and King Wu as joint recipients. By comparing these texts, the study highlights the contradiction of Western Zhou religious narratives to Eastern Zhou moralistic reinterpretations that coexisted in the same text, showing how the myth of the Mandate was reconstructed to address contemporary political challenges.

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AU  - Jintian Li
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/12/14
TI  - Recipients of the Mandate: Contradictory Narratives in Baoxun(Instructions for Preservation) and Chengwu(Awakening at Cheng)
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 6th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 17
EP  - 23
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-319-1_3
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