Shàngshū zhùshū 尚書注疏
The Shàngshū with Notes and Subcommentary (Sìkù integrated edition) 孔安國 (傳); 孔穎達 (疏); 陸德明 (音義); with Qing kǎozhèng by 齊召南 and 陳浩
About the work
The Sìkù-canonized integrated Shàngshū recension in nineteen juàn — the standard medieval-imperial composite text combining: the canonical Shàngshū base (Méi Zé 梅賾 recension, 58 pian); the Pseudo-Kǒng Ānguó 偽孔安國 zhuàn commentary; Lù Démíng’s 陸德明 Yīnyì 音義 phonological-meaning glosses (drawn from his Jīng diǎn shì wén 經典釋文); Kǒng Yǐngdá’s 孔穎達 Shàngshū zhèng yì 尚書正義 (KR1b0003) Táng-period subcommentary. This composite was the standard medieval-imperial Shàngshū text from the Táng through the Qiánlóng era and was the imperial-examination authoritative text.
The Sìkù recension adds a further critical-evidence (kǎo zhèng 考證) apparatus by the Qiánlóng-period scholars Qí Zhàonán 齊召南 and Chén Hào 陳浩, providing textual-philological notes that incorporate post-Yán Ruòqú 閻若璩 kǎozhèng findings into the imperial recension. The Qiánlóng kǎo zhèng layer is one of the cleaner Sìkù-period editorial interventions in the canonical text.
For the broader Shàngshū textual history and the Yán Ruòqú demolition of the Méi Zé gǔ wén pian, see KR1b0001; for the history of the Pseudo-Kǒng zhuàn, see 孔安國; for the Táng zhèng yì tradition, see KR1b0003.
Tiyao
The Sìkù tíyào is bound with the Wǔ jīng zhèng yì cluster of imperial commissions; it is preserved separately as part of the broader tíyào literature.
Abstract
The text-history span (642–1773) covers the original Táng zhèng yì commission through the Qing Sìkù compilation. The work is one of the most important Sìkù Imperial-canonical recensions: it makes available in a single integrated apparatus all the principal medieval scholastic strata (Pseudo-Kǒng, Lù Démíng, Kǒng Yǐngdá) plus the high-Qing critical-evidence layer (Qí Zhàonán, Chén Hào).
The reconciliation between the Méi Zé recension’s canonical authority (which the imperial edition perforce maintains) and the Yán Ruòqú demolition of the Méi Zé gǔ wén pian (which the Qing kǎozhèng tradition had broadly accepted) is handled by the kǎo zhèng apparatus: the Qí / Chén notes flag textual problems and forgery-suspicions without rewriting the canonical text. This is methodologically conservative but philologically responsible.
Translations and research
See KR1b0001 for the broader Shàngshū bibliography. The Sìkù integrated recension is the basis for most modern Chinese punctuated editions of the Shàngshū zhùshū.
Other points of interest
The integrated five-strata composite (Pseudo-Kǒng + Lù Démíng + Kǒng Yǐngdá + Qí + Chén) makes the Sìkù recension one of the most comprehensive single-volume scholarly apparatuses on a Confucian classic. The combination of medieval scholasticism (the first three layers) with high-Qing kǎozhèng critical apparatus (the last two) is characteristic of the Sìkù’s ambition and represents one of the high points of Qing-period imperial-canonical scholarship.