Fengcun Liu

How Heaven Becomes Normative: Yin–Yang, the Five Phases, and the Kingly Way in the Dong Zhongshu Tradition

This article asks how cosmic order is connected to the Kingly Way in Han shu materials concerning the historical Dong Zhongshu and relevant chapters of the received Chunqiu fanlu on Heaven–human relations, yin–yang, the Five Phases, and rulership. Reading the Han shu memorials al...