Confucian (continued )

Classics, 10–11, 25, 107, 129, 200–201, 245

false, 108, 111, 135

morality, 7, 11, 13–15, 62, 67

virtue, 14, 62, 68

Confucius, 6–8, 10–11, 13–14, 28, 62, 69, 73, 112, 145–146, 200, 227, 240, 256, 262

teachings of, 10, 13, 28

quoting, 13–14, 68

consorts, distractions by, 77, 87, 98, 117, 231, 247

cosmology, 159, 253

court

dangers of, 79–81, 89–90, 155

etiquette, 107

failures of, 139

historian(s), 4, 156

life, 4, 74, 105, 155, 167

officials, 4, 67, 72, 78, 100, 232

women’s control of, 98–100

Cram, Ralph Adams, xiii

criticism, allegory asSee also emperor, criticisms of; remonstrations, loyal, 6–8

Cui Yin, 122–123, 181, 213

Cultural Revolution, 9

“cut-and-paste.” See text, cutting and pasting of

cutting the sleeve, 101–107, 237

Daliang, 157, 254

Dan Ji, 231

Derrida, Jacques, 35

destiny, 105, 136, 140, 142, 146, 149–151, 166, 168, 170–174, 178–179, 248, 256

Ding Man, 99, 236

Ding Ming, 99, 236

Ding Tao, Dowager/Empress, 99–100

Dingxiang, 75–76, 117, 230

Discourses of the States,, 141, 199–200

Discourses Weighed in the Balance,, 127

Disquisitions of the States (Guoyu),, 6, 210

divine right, 139

“Documents,”, 35–37, 199, 217

Documents (Shangshu),, 7, 23, 25, 33, 37, 42, 74, 77, 96, 108, 117, 141, 143, 146–148, 159, 165, 199, 219, 231, 249, 251, 256, 261

Dong Gong, 101–102, 104, 236

Dong Xian, 100–106, 109, 236–237, 239

fall from power, 106

Dong Zhongshu, xvii, 7–8, 11, 19, 39, 42, 72, 125, 137, 141, 151–154, 192, 207, 210, 212, 216, 244, 249, 252, 255, 258

Dongfang Shuo, 128, 193

Dongping, king of, 79, 124, 184, 232, 243

Dou Ban, 68, 70–71, 183, 228

Dou Bobi, 69–70, 183

Dou Rong, 120, 132, 242

Dou Xian, 130–131, 184, 246

Dou Ziwen, 68–71, 183, 226–228

Draft of the Qing History (Qingshi gao),, 180

dragons, 32, 110, 113, 157, 161–162, 173–174

Dubs, Homer, xviii, 35, 100, 110, 113, 173, 218–219, 238–239

Durrant, Stephen, xviii, 151, 230