Mutual Concealment Between Relatives Revisited: A Response to Liao Mingchun and Liang Tao

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Notes

See Guo Qiyong, Rujia lunli zhengming ji (Controversies on Confucian Ethics) (Wuhan: Hubei Education Press, 2004); Guo Qiyong, Rujia lunli xin pipan zhi pipan (Critique of New Criticism of Confucian Ethics) (Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, 2011).

Liao Mingchun, “Lunyu fuweiziyin zhang xin zheng” (New Interpretation of Analects 13.18), Hunan daxue xuebao (Journal of Hunan University) [Shehui kexue ban (social sciences edition)] (March 2013): 5–13. Liang Tao, “Qinqin xiangyin yu yin er ren zhi” (Mutual Concealment and Concealing and Taking Responsibility for [Relatives’] Faults), Zhexue yanjiu (Philosophical Studies) (October 2012): 35–42.

Zhang Zhiqiang and Guo Qiyong, “Ye tan qinqin xiangyin” (Also on Mutual Concealment Between Relatives), Zhexue yanjiu (Philosophical Studies) (April 2013): 36–42.

Liao Mingchun, “New Interpretation,” p. 9.

Duan Yucai, Annotations on Shuo wen jie zi (Chengdu: Chengdu guji chubanshe, 1981), vol. 2, p. 778.

Hanyu dacidian (Grand Chinese Dictionary), abridged edition (Wuhan: Hubei cishu chubanshe/Chengdu: Sichuang cishu chubanshe, 1992), p. 1732.

Duan Yucai, Annotations on Shuo wen jie zi, vol. 2, p. 280.

See, for example, the “Xing’e” (Human Nature Is Evil), “Faxing” (Model for Conduct), “Dalüe” (The Great Compendium), and “Feixiang” (Contra Physiognomy) chapters.

Wang Xianqian, Xunzi jijie (Summarized Annotations on Xunzi) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1954), pp. 6, 38, 127, 167. See English translation by John Knoblock, Xunzi (California: Stanford University Press, 1994), vol. 1, pp. 139, 190, and vol. 2, pp. 136, 200—Trans.

Yang Bojun, Chunqiu zuozhuang zhu (Annotations on the Zuo Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1981), pp. 418–419; see English translation by James Legge, The Ch’un Ts’ew with the Tso Chuen (Taipei: Southern Materials Center, 1985), part 1, p. 192.

Yang Bojun, Annotations on the Zuo Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, vol. 2, p. 663. See James Legge, The Ch’un Ts’ew with the Tso Chuen, part 2, pp. 290–291—Trans.

Yang Bojun, Annotations on the Zuo Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, vol. 4, p. 1367. See James Legge, The Ch’un Ts’ew with the Tso Chuen, part 3, p. 656—Trans.

James Legge, The Ch’un Ts’ew with the Tso Chuen, part 1, pp. 50, 167; part 2, pp. 233, 345, 533; part 3, pp. 650, 710 (with modifications)—Trans.

In other pre-Qin documents such as the Laozi, the Mengzi, the Zhuangzi, the Shijing (Book of Odes), the Shujing (Book of Documents), and the Yijing (Book of Changes), the uses of yin₁ are similar to those we have mentioned above.

All Lunyu (Analects) passages in this essay are translated from the Chinese version in Liu Baonan, Lunyu zhengyi (Correcting Commentaries on Analects) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1954).

Liu Baonan, Correcting Commentaries on Analects, p. 292.

Lin Guizhen, “Guanyu qinqin xiangyin de ruogan bianzheng” (Some Differentiations and Corrections Concerning the Problem of Mutual Concealment Between relatives); see Guo Qiyong, Critique of New Criticism of Confucian Ethics, p. 426.

Liu Baonan, Correcting Commentaries on Analects, p. 83.

Cited from Yang Bojun, Lunyu yizhu (Translation and Commentaries of Analects) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1980), p. 13.

Kong Yingda, Liji zhengyi (Correcting Commentaries of Liji) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1979), p. 1274.

Ibid., p. 1274.

Sun Xidan, Liji jijie (Summarized Annotations of Liji) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1989), p. 165.

Zhu Xi, Sishu jizhu (Summarized Commentaries of the Four Books) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1983), p. 146; Li Jingde, ed., Zhuzi yulei (Classified Sayings of Master Zhu) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1986), p. 1202.

Liu Zongzhou, Liu Zongzhou quanji (The Complete Works of Liu Zongzhou) (Hangzhou: Zhejiang guji chubanshe, 2007), p. 452.

Xu Weiyu, Lüshi chunqiu jishi (Summarized Annotations of Lüshi chunqiu) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2009), p. 252.

Kong Yingda, Correcting Commentaries of Liji, p. 1695. Duan (斷) is replaced by zhan (斬) in “Six Virtues” of Guodian Chu Bamboo Slips; see Liu Zhao, Guodian chujian jiaoshi (Collation and Notes on the Guodian Chu Bamboo Slips) (Fuzhou: Fujian renmin chubanshe, 2003), p. 117.

Liang Shuming, Liang Shuming quanji (The Complete Works of Liang Shuming) (Jinan: Shandong renmin chubanshe, 1990), vol. 3, pp. 127–128.

Sima Qian, Shiji (Records of the Grand Scribe) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1997), p. 296.

Huan Kuan, Yan tie lun (On Salt and Iron) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1954), p. 57.

Liu Zongzhou, The Complete Works of Liu Zongzhou, p. 380.

Liang Tao, “Mutual Concealment and Concealing and Taking Responsibility for [Relatives’] Faults,” p. 37.

Ma Chengyuan, Shanghai bowuguan cang zhanguo Chu zhu shu (Warring States Period Chu Bamboo Slips in the Shanghai Museum) (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2001), p. 13.

Ma Chengyuan, Warring States Period Chu Bamboo Slips, p. 126.

Rao Zongyi, “Zhu shu ‘Shi xu’ xiao jian” (A Tiny Annotation on Bamboo Slip “Shi xu”); see Research Center of Ancient Civilization at Shanghai University and Institute of Thought and Culture at Tsinghua University, Shangbo guangcang Chu zhushu yanjiu (Investigation of the Warring States Period Chu Bamboo Slips in the Shanghai Museum) (Shanghai: Shanghai shudian chubanshe, 2002).

Li Ling, Shangbo Chu jian sanpian jiaoduji (Collating Notes of Three Pieces of Chu Bamboo Slips in the Shanghai Museum) (Beijing: Zhongguo renmin daxue chubanshe, 2009), p. 11.

Li Xueqin, “Tan Shilun shi wu yin zhi” (Discussion on the ‘Shi wu yin zhi’ Section of ‘Shilun’), Wenyi yanjiu (Literature and Art Studies) 2 (2002). Qiu Xigui, Zhongguo chu tu gu wenxian shi jiang (Ten Lectures on the Unearthed Ancient Chinese Texts) (Shanghai: Fudan daxue chubanshe, 2004).

Liao Mingchun, “Du Chu zhu shu nei feng” (Reading Notes of the Bamboo Text ‘Nei Feng’), part 1, available at http://www.jianbo.org/admin3/2005/liaominchun006.htm. Cao Jiandun, “Du shangbo Chu zhu shu nei feng” (Reading Notes of the Bamboo Slip ‘Nei Feng’ in the Shanghai Museum), available at http://www.jianbo.org/admin3/2005/caojiandun001.htm.

Ma Chengyuan, Warring States Period Chu Bamboo Slips, vol. 4, p. 225.

Fang Zhensan, “Shangboguan cang Chu zhu shu si shi zi er ze” (Two Examples of Word Paraphrasing Concerning Warring States Period Chu Bamboo Slips in the Shanghai Museum, volume 4), in Guji yanjiu (Investigations on Ancient Books) (Hefei: Anhui daxue chubanshe, 2006), vol. 49. Zhang Lei, “Shanghai bowuguan zhu shu neili yu da Dai liji zengzi shipian” (Shanghai Museum Bamboo Slip “Domestic Rituals” and Ten Pieces about Zengzi in Da Dai Liji), Guanzi xuekan (Guanzi Journal) 1 (2007). Wang Qiaosheng, “Shangbo cang zhanguo Chu zhu shu si neng feng pian jishi” (Summarized Annotations of ‘Nei Feng’ in Warring States Period Chu Bamboo Slips in the Shanghai Museum, volume 4), Pingdingshan xueyuan xuebao (Journal of Pingdingshan College) 23, no. 6 (2008).

Wei Yihui, “Du Shangbo Chu jian si” (Reading Notes of Warring States Period Chu Bamboo Slips in the Shanghai Museum, volume 4), available at http://www.jianbo.org/admin3/2005/weiyihui001.htm. Dong Shan, “Du Shangbo cang zhanguo Chu zhu shu si zaji” (Reading Remarks of Warring States Period Chu Bamboo Slips in the Shanghai Museum, volume 4), available at http://www.jianbo.org/admin3/2005/dongshan001.htm. Cao Jiandun, “Du Shangbo cang zhanguo Chu zhu shu nei li pian” (Reading Notes of the Bamboo Slip ‘Nei Feng’ in the Shanghai Museum), available at http://www.jianbo.org/admin3/2005/caojiandun001.htm.

Huang Ren’er, “Shangbo cang jian di si ce neili shu hou” (Postscript of “Domestic Rituals” in Warring States Period Chu Bamboo Slips in the Shanghai Museum, volume 4), Gu wenzi yanjiu (Research on Ancient Written Language) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 2006), vol. 26.

Fukuda Tetuyuki, “Shangbo Chu jian neili de wenxian xingzhi” (The Bibliographical Nature of “Domestic Rituals”), Research Center of Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts at Wuhan University, Jianbo (Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts) (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2006), vol. 1, p. 174.

Chen Weixing, “Neili haishi dali” (“Domestic Rituals” or “Grand Rites”), Huaxia kaogu (Huaxia Archaeology) 3 (2009).

Chen Qiaojian, “Lujie, lixing, yu fan feng” (Logic, Rationality, and Irony), Xuehai (Academia Bimestris) 2 (2007). Lin Guizhen, “Sugeladi dui zi gao fu biaoshi zanyang ma” (Did Socrates Approve the Son’s Accusation of the Father?), Jiangsu shehui kexue (Jiangsu Social Sciences) 4 (2007). Guo Qiyong and Chen Qiaojian, “Sugeladi Bailatu yu Kong Zi de qinqin xiangyin ji jianting lunchang guan” (The Views of Socrates, Plato and Confucius on Mutual Concealment and Family Ethics), Shehui kexue (Social Sciences) (Shanghai) 2 (2009). Gu Liling, “Sugeladi yanzhong de Youxufeilun wenti” (The Euthyphro Problem in the Eyes of Socrates), Xueshu yuekan (Academic Monthly) 7 (2013).

Liang Tao, “Mutual Concealment and Concealing and Taking Responsibility for [Relatives’] Faults,” pp. 39, 40, 41. Liang’s original paper in Chinese has an extensive discussion of Mencius’s view, particularly in comparison with his predecessors. Due to the length limit, a significant portion of that discussion is cut in the English translation included in this issue. However, some of his central arguments are kept—Ed.

This commentary, in fact, was originally given by Zhou Fengwu in “Jianbo wuxing yiduan wenzi de jiedu” (Interpretation of a Paragraph in the Bamboo Slip Version and Silk Version of the Five Conducts), a paper submitted to “Methodological Revelations in the Study of the History of Ideas from the Literature of Bamboo and Silk Slips,” a workshop held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in June 2012. Liang directly quotes this commentary from Zhou Fengwu’s paper.

Liang Tao, “Mutual Concealment and Concealing and Taking Responsibility for [Relatives’] Faults,” p. 38.

Ibid., pp. 38, 39.

Liang Tao, Guodian zhujian yu Simeng xuepai (The Guodian Bamboo Slips and the School of Zisi-Mengzi) (Beijing: Renmin daxue chubanshe, 2008), p. 387.

Liang Tao, The Guodian Bamboo Slips and the School of Zisi-Mengzi, p. 386.

See Zhuzi yu lei (Classified Conversations of Master Zhu) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1986), pp. 463, 472, 478.

See Chuan xi lu (Instructions for Practical Living), in Wang Yangming quanji (Complete Works of Wang Yangming) (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe), pp. 25, 26.

Liang Tao, “‘Concealing (Parents’ Wrongdoings)’ and ‘Taking Responsibility for Them,‘” p. 39.

Here is only a brief summary of the characteristics of the thinking of Confucian masters in pre-Qin China. In fact, the contributions made by Confucian masters are many, such as Meng Zi’s doctrine of natural goodness, his theory of humane government, and so on.

Yang Bojun, Annotations on the Zuo Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, p. 38.

Huan Kuan, On Salt and Iron, p. 59.

Ban Gu, Hanshu (Book of the Han) (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1997), p. 72.

See endnote 1 above. See also Guo Qiyong, “Qin qin xiang yin rong yin zhi ji dui dang jin fazhi de qi di: zai bei da de yan jiang” (Mutual Concealment Between Relatives, the System of Concealment, and Their Revelations on Contemporary Society Under the Rule of Law: Speech at Peking University), Shehui kexue luntan (Tribune of Social Sciences) (August 2007): 90–106.

Zhonghua renmin gongheguo xingshi shusong fa (Criminal Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China) (Beijing: Falu chubanshe, 2012), p. 95.

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Guo Qiyong

Guo Qiyong is a professor in the School of Philosophy and School of Chinese Classics, Wuhan University.

Zhang Zhiqiang

Zhang Zhiqiang is a Ph.D. student in the School of Philosophy, Wuhan University.