Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire
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    [title] => Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire
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    [synopsis] => Contests long-standing claims that Confucianism came to prominence under China's Emperor Wu.

When did Confucianism become the reigning political ideology of imperial China? A pervasive narrative holds it was during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (141-87 BCE). In this book, Liang Cai maintains that such a date would have been too early and provides a new account of this transformation. A hidden narrative in Sima Qian's The Grand Scribe's Records (Shi ji) shows that Confucians were a powerless minority in the political realm of this period. Cai argues that the notorious witchcraft scandal of 91-87 BCE reshuffled the power structure of the Western Han bureaucracy and provided Confucians an opportune moment to seize power, evolve into a new elite class, and set the tenor of political discourse for centuries to come.
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    [series] => SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    [publisher] => State University of New York Press
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