Confucius
Book of Documents (Shujing)
Traditional attribution
Book of Documents (Shujing)
書經 / 尚書
Source of the Confucian ideal of government: Yao, Shun and Yu as models, the Mandate of Heaven as the ground of legitimacy, the prince as morally responsible for the people. Confucius cites it in the Analects (2.21, 14.40) as authority on filial duty and mourning.
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Authorship note
Collection of speeches, proclamations and narratives attributed to the sage-kings and the early Zhou. Tradition makes Confucius its compiler and author of the prefaces; part of the chapters (the "old text") is a 4th-century CE forgery, demonstrated by Yan Ruoqu in the 17th century.
Editions and translations
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English
Confucius
The Shoo King, or the Book of Historical Documents (The Chinese Classics, vol. 3)
The Conscious LibraryThe Shoo King, or the Book of Historical Documents (The Chinese Classics, vol. 3)
Trübner, Londres, 1865
Translation: James Legge
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Other works by Confucius
- Analects (Lunyu) · 400
- Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu) · 481
- Book of Songs (Shijing) · 600
- The Ten Wings of the Book of Changes · 300
- Record of Rites (Liji) · 100
- Classic of Filial Piety (Xiaojing) · 300
- Sayings of the Confucian School (Kongzi jiayu) · 240
- The Four Books (Sishu) · 1190
- The Great Learning (Daxue) · 200
- Confucius's Discussion of the Odes (Kongzi shilun) · 300
Sources
- Sima Qian. Shiji (Memorias históricas), juan 47, «Kongzi shijia» (Casa hereditaria de Confucio), c. 94 a. C. Ed. Zhonghua shuju, Pekín, 1959. Trad. francesa: Chavannes, Les Mémoires historiques de Se-ma Ts'ien, vol. 5, 1905; trad. inglesa en Nienhauser (ed.), The Grand Scribe's Records, vol. 5.1, Indiana University Press, 2006.
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