Shàngshū jiǎng yì 尚書講義
Lecture-Meanings on the Shàngshū by 史浩
About the work
A Southern-Sòng Shàngshū commentary in twenty juàn by Shǐ Hào 史浩 (1106–1194), the Right-Vice-Grand-Councilor of Yínxiàn 鄞縣. The work is in the jiǎng yì 講義 (lecture-meaning) genre — a Sòng-period tradition of reading-method gloss derived from teaching practice — and represents the official high-Sòng court-Confucian Shàngshū reading. Methodologically the work is yìli-oriented and reads the canonical text as a foundational document of imperial governance ethics; sample style: brief paraphrase plus extended discursive exposition on the canonical passage’s moral-political implications.
The work’s distinctive features include its careful interpretive engagement with the Shū xù 書序 (the prefaces traditionally attributed to Confucius — though their authorship is itself disputed) and its consistent application of Sòng Lǐxué concepts (lǐ 理, xìng 性, xīn 心, zhì 治) to the canonical text’s reading.
Tiyao
The Sìkù tíyào on Shǐ Hào’s Shàngshū jiǎng yì is preserved in the Shū-class section.
Abstract
Composition is bracketed by Shǐ Hào’s mature scholarship through his death in 1194; the bracket here adopts a generous range. The work is one of the principal Southern-Sòng court-Confucian Shàngshū commentaries.
The jiǎng yì genre is a distinctive Sòng-period contribution to Confucian classical pedagogy — texts that document the lecture-format teaching of canonical content for use in imperial court instruction, examination preparation, and broader Confucian-school transmission. Shǐ Hào’s Jiǎng yì is among the most substantial Shàngshū-genre exemplars of this format.
Translations and research
No major Western-language monograph specifically on Shǐ Hào’s Jiǎng yì located. For the broader Southern-Sòng Shū-tradition see references in KR1b0001.
Other points of interest
The pairing of the jiǎng yì / lecture-derived genre with substantive Shàngshū exegesis is methodologically interesting and represents one strand of Sòng-period commentary writing that complemented the more text-focused continuous-gloss tradition (Sū Shì KR1b0006, Lín Zhīqí KR1b0007).