Ts’ao P’i Transcendent

Ts’ao P’i Transcendent
Author	Howard L. Goodman
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	288
Romanization	Wade-Giles
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject(s)	• Cao Pi • Wei • the ascension
Publication	19 November 1998

Ts’ao P’i Transcendent: The Political Culture of Dynasty-Founding in China at the End of the Han is a book written by Howard L. Goodman and released in 1998. It analyses the foundation of Wei by Cao Pi.

Official description

Analyses the foundation of the San-kuo Wei Dynasty by Ts'ao P'i in 220 CE, using the main historical accounts, a wide range of religious and philosophical writings, epigraphical records, and above all, the records contained in the commentaries to Ch'en Shou's San-kuo chih by the fifth century writer P'ei Sung-chih.

Chapters

• INTRODUCTION TO STRATEGY AND SUBJECT MATTER
  • Writing Strategy
  • The Historical Subject of the Matter

• PART I - RULING AUTHORITY AND LEGITIMACY BEFORE THE HAN-WEI TRANSITION
  • Chapter One. THE EARLY CULTURE OF AUTHORITY AND LEGITIMATION AND THE CH’IN AND HAN MODELS
    • Modern Approaches to the Study of Authority and Legitimation
    • Developments in the Ancient Period: Revelation, Divination, Philosophy
    • The Culture of Legitimation as a Tool of Dynasty-Founding
  • Chapter Two. STEPS TOWARDS DYNASTY-FOUNDING: TS’AO AND SSU-MA FAMILY, LOCAL, AND NATIONAL POWER
    • The Ts’ao and Ssu-ma Families: Northern Military Leaders
    • Setting the Stage for a New Authority and Legitimacy

• PART II - NOVEMBER 19 TO DECEMBER 11: A MESS OF INK
  • Chapter Three. NOVEMBER 19: AN ANNOUNCEMENT IN THE HAN IMPERIAL CULT
    • Wei Chi’s Text of the Emperor’s Shrine Speech
    • A Scholar Specializing in Antique Scripts and and Legitimation Texts
  • Chapter Four. UNDATED: CELESTIAL-MASTER TAOISTS DELIVER A PRO-TS’AO P’I ORACLE
    • “Hsien-ti chuan”
    • Chang Lu and the Five-Peck, or Celestial-Master, Taoists
    • Ts’ao P’i Accepts the Oracle-Text and Its Prediction
  • Chapter Five. NOVEMBER 20-22: A CORE GROUP OF LEGITIMATION EXPERTS
    • Former Southerners at the Ts’ao Court
    • Eminent Northerners and the Ying-ch’uan Contingent
    • The Core Group Explains Oracle-Text
    • The Testimony o f Crucial Specialists
  • Chapter Six. NOVEMBER 23-24: SSU-MA I’S PHILOSOPHY OF POLITICAL ACTION AND TS’AO P’I'S HERO-REFUSERS
    • Landed General, Local Defender, and Military Ritualist
  • Chapter Seven. NOVEMBER 25-29: TS’AO P’I’S EMBLEMS OF TRANSCENDENT RULE
    • The Han Emperor Makes an Excuse
    • Ts’ao P’i Castigates the Core Group
    • A Chuang-tzu Emblem of the Transcendent-Refuser
    • Ts’ao P’i Calls upon Divine Omens
    • Collecting and Alluding: Literature as Political Jousting
  • Chapter Eight. NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 7: RITUAL CHRONOLOGY LINKS THE TS’AO HOUSE WITH CHUAN HSÜ AND THE YELLOW EMPEROR
    • Tung Pa’s Theory of a Chuan Hsü Calendar
    • A Yellow Emperor Genealogy
    • An I-ching Pep-Talk
  • Chapter Nine. DECEMBER 7-10: THE HIGHEST OFFICIALS AND THE CORE GROUP FACILITATE THE ACCESSION
    • The Three Excellencies
    • The Ethics of Political Sharing
    • Philosophy, Souls of Deceased Rulers, and Omens

• PART III - REVERBERATIONS
  • Chapter Ten. DECEMBER 11: THE UNFOLDING OF TS’AO-WEI COURT RITUAL
    • December 11: The Han Emperor’s Invocation
    • Ts’ao P’i’s (Wen-ti’s) Ceremonies and Proposals for Court Ritual
    • Trouble Ahead for Wen-ti and the Dynasty
  • Chapter Eleven. THE STELE OF 221 A.D.: TS’AO TS’AO’S GENERALS SIGN ON TO THE NEW DYNASTY
    • The Stele at Fan-yang
    • Translation and Provenance of the Stele Text
    • Ts’ao P’i’s Military Underpinning
    • Gesture and Historiography
  • CONCLUSION
    • Pioneers in the Study of Dynastic Legitimation
  • APPENDIX: THE RELIABILITY OF THE SOURCES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • TABLES

Excerpts

page 1 of chapter 1

page 2 of chapter 1

page 1 of chapter 2

page 2 of chapter 2

Sources

• Goodman, Howard L. Ts’ao P’i Transcendent: Political Culture and Dynasty-Founding in China at the End of the Han. Washington: Routledge, 1998.