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Comprehensive Discussions in the White Tiger Hall
In AD 79 the Han emperor gathered the leading scholars in the White Tiger Hall to settle disputes about the meaning of the classics. The historian Ban Gu recorded their conclusions, and the result is a systematic handbook of Han thought: why the ruler is called Son of Heaven, what titles of rank mean, how the five sacrifices of the household are made, why there are three bonds and six relations, how the five phases and the seasons shape government, how marriage, mourning, punishments and the calendar should be ordered. Each topic is set out as a question with answers drawn from the classics. This complete new English translation covers the whole work, from Titles of Rank to Collapse and Demise, an essential guide to the worldview of imperial Confucianism.
