What Did Disciples Do?: Dizi 弟子 in Early Chinese Texts

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Weingarten, Oliver
What Did Disciples Do?: Dizi 弟子 in Early Chinese Texts.
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. Roč. 75, č. 1 (2015), s. 29-75. ISSN 0073-0548
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378009
Klíčová slova: discipleship * Confucianism * pre-Qin texts
Obor OECD: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Způsob publikování: Open access
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/601601

The Confucian 'scene of instruction' is the most influential model of discipleship for the Warring States through the Han period. It portrays the collective identity of master and disciples (dizi) as derived from the production, recitation, and transmission of texts. However, examination of how pre-Qin texts depict discipleship as a social phenomenon suggests that learning to read and write was not a universal aspiration of dizi. Moreover, attention to emplotment, motifs, wording, and tone in historical narratives about the master-disciple relationship shows increasing similarities over time to the patron-retainer relationship, including the potential for aggression and expectations of material returns. Discipleship, however, apparently created a permanent mutual obligation not shared by retainership. Further research is needed to understand the broad range of social roles expected of dizi in early Chinese texts
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0267350