Zǐsīzǐ quánshū 子思子全書
Master Zǐsī — Complete Works edited by 汪晫 (Wāng Zhuó, zì Chǔwēi 處微, 1162–1237, 宋)
(Note: as for KR3a0053, the catalog meta gives the editor’s surname as 王晫 — typographical slip for 汪. The correct surname 汪 is used in the wikilink target.)
About the work
A one-juan companion to the Zēngzǐ quánshū (KR3a0053), gathering the dispersed sayings of Zǐsī 子思 (Kǒng Jí 孔伋, the grandson of Confucius and conventional author of the Zhōng yōng) from the Lǐjì, Dà Dài lǐjì, and other classical sources by Wāng Zhuó in the Qìngyuán to Jiātài era (1195–1204). Like the Zēngzǐ quánshū, the work was presented to court by Wāng Mèngdòu in Xiánchún 10 (1274) and the imperial sanction granted Wāng Zhuó posthumous Tōngzhí láng and depositing of the books. The work places the Zhōng yōng as one of the constituent篇 — a Sòng-period editorial position grounded in the canonical ZhūXī attribution.
Tiyao
(See the joint SKQS tíyào under KR3a0053, which treats both works together. The relevant points specific to Zǐsīzǐ quánshū are: the work parallels the Zēngzǐ quánshū in editorial method; the Zhōng yōng is incorporated as one of the constituent 篇 under an invented title; the same Wāng Mèngdòu Xiánchún 10 presentation and imperial sanction apply.)
Abstract
The Zǐsīzǐ quánshū is the companion to the Zēngzǐ quánshū and shares its editorial situation. The composition window is the Qìngyuán to Jiātài era (1195–1204). The frontmatter brackets to ca. 1195–1204.
The substantive position is Zhū-Xī-orthodox: the Zhōng yōng is treated as Zǐsī’s authentic composition, in line with the standard SòngLǐxué attribution. The pre-Sòng Zǐsīzǐ corpus (the Hàn shū yìwén zhì’s 23 篇) had largely been lost; Wāng’s reconstruction is built on the parallel passages in classical sources. The ZhūXī line is followed in attributing the Dà xué to Zēngzǐ and the Zhōng yōng to Zǐsī, with each work then incorporated as the central 篇 of its respective figure’s reconstructed quánshū.
The textual transmission and bibliographic record are as for KR3a0053.
Translations and research
- For the parent traditions on Zǐsī and the Zhōng yōng: Tu Wei-ming, Centrality and Commonality (1989).
- No substantial English-language secondary literature located on Wāng Zhuó’s Zǐ-sī-zǐ quán-shū specifically.
- The work is treated alongside the Zēng-zǐ quán-shū in studies of late-Sòng zǐ-text recovery.
Other points of interest
The simultaneous Sòng-end (1274) imperial sanction of both Wāng Zhuó works represents one of the late acts of formal imperial Lǐxué canon-building before the Mongol conquest. The work has not been the subject of substantial post-Sòng scholarly discussion.
Links
- Zēngzǐ quánshū (KR3a0053) — the companion work, with which this is treated jointly.
- Wāng Mèngdòu, “Zēngzǐ Zǐsīzǐ quánshū jìn biǎo” (preserved in
KR3a0053_000.txt). - Kyoto Zinbun, Sìkù quánshū zǒngmù tíyào (joint tíyào)
- Wikidata