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1、Dao(2012)11:129–145DOI10.1007/s11712-012-9266-1Zhong中andIdealRulershipintheBaoxun保訓(InstructionsforPreservation)TextoftheTsinghuaCollectionofBambooSlipManuscriptsShirleyChanPublishedonline:12April2012#SpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V.2012AbstractZhon
2、g中(variouslytranslatedas“middle,”“center,”“centrality,”“themean,”and“equilibrium”)isanimportantnotioninearlyChinesethought.ThisessayoffersabriefsurveyofthepossibleconnotationsofzhongfoundintheBaoxun保訓(InstructionsforPreservation)textoftheTsinghuaUniv
3、ersity’sCollectionofbamboomanuscriptsoftheWarringStatesperiod(475-221BCE).Bymakingapreliminarytextualanalysisandphilosophicalinterpretationoftheconceptofzhonginrelationtoidealrulershipaspresentedinthisnewlydiscoveredancienttextitishopedthatitwillshed
4、somelightonthecontinuingdebateonthenotionofzhonginearlyChinesethought.KeywordsZhong中.Rulership.EarlyChinesethought.Qinghuajian清華簡.WarringStatesbamboosliptexts1IntroductionTheconceptofzhong中isdiscussedinsuchancientChinesetextsastheZhongyong中庸1(Doctrin
5、eoftheMean)andtheShangshu尚書(BookofDocuments).Apartfromthe1TheZhongyongwasselectedbytheSong(960-1279CE)Neo-ConfucianscholarZHUXi朱熹(1130-1200CE)asoneoftheFourBooks(Sishu四書).ThetextistraditionallyattributedtoZisi子思(KONGJi孔伋)(483-402BCE),Confucius’sgrand
6、son,thoughtheQing(1644-1911CE)scholarCUIShu崔述(1740-1816CE)doubtedthis,givinglinguisticevidenceforhisopinion(Cui1983:398).Therearedifferentscholarlyinterpretationsoftheterm“zhongyong.”HanscholarssuchasZHENGXuan鄭玄(127-200CE)believedthat“zhong”means“har
7、mony”and“yong”means“toputintopractice”or“tomanifest,”whichmakesthetitleZhongyongthe“practiceoftheprincipleofharmony”(Zheng1999:1422);others,particularlysuchSongphilosophersasCHENGYi程頤(1033-1107CE)andZHUXi,suggestedthatthemeaningof“zhong”canberendered
8、as“themiddle”,“thecenter”,“themean”,or“leaningneitheronewayoranother,”andthat“yong”means“thatwhichisconstant,admittingofnochange”(Zhu1987:1).ShirleyChan(*)ChineseStudies,DepartmentofInternationalStudies,FacultyofArts,MacquarieUniversity,NorthRyde,NSW