Sūn Huì jí 孫惠集
Collected Works of Sun Hui (Reconstructed) by 孫惠 (撰)
About the work
A reconstructed collection (jíyìběn 輯佚本) of the literary writings of Sūn Huì 孫惠 (fl. 302–306 CE), Western Jìn 西晉 official and polemicist of the Bā Wáng zhī Luàn 八王之亂 (Rebellion of the Eight Princes) era. The surviving fragments — gathered in one juǎn — consist mainly of politically charged memorials and open letters written during the turbulent succession crises of the late Western Jìn. Sun Hui was an official of Prince Qí 齊王 Sīmǎ Jiōng 司馬冏 and later of Prince Chéng 成都王 Sīmǎ Yǐng 司馬穎, and several of his surviving pieces are political manifestos addressed to rival princes during the civil wars.
Tiyao
No tiyao found in source. This text is an extra-catalog reconstruction not included in the Sìkù quánshū 四庫全書.
Abstract
Sūn Huì 孫惠 (fl. 302–306 CE; zì Déyuán 德淵; CBDB: not confirmed for the Jin period person) was a Western Jìn official who served under Prince Qí 齊王 Sīmǎ Jiōng 司馬冏 and subsequently under Prince Chéng 成都王 Sīmǎ Yǐng 司馬穎 during the Bā Wáng zhī Luàn 八王之亂 (291–306 CE). He is notable for a series of forceful political letters and manifestos, preserved in the Jìnshū, in which he remonstrated with the contending princes and urged reconciliation. His biography is in Jìnshū 晉書 juǎn 62.
Sun Hui’s literary output is primarily political and polemical rather than belletristic, making him a somewhat peripheral figure in the mainstream literary anthology tradition. Nevertheless, Zhāng Pǔ 張溥 included a Sūn Déyuán jí 孫德淵集 in the Hàn Wèi Liùcháo bǎisān jiā jí 漢魏六朝百三家集. The present one-juǎn reconstruction is the jiyiben compilation.
Translations and research
- de Crespigny, Rafe. A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23–220 AD). Leiden: Brill, 2007. (For background on the late Western Jin period.)
- Knechtges, David R., and Taiping Chang, eds. Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature: A Reference Guide. Leiden: Brill, 2010–2014.
Links
- Wikipedia: War of the Eight Princes