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Taoism and Chinese Religion

The Five "Confucian" Classics

by Michael Nylan

A study of the Odes, Documents, Rites, Changes and Spring and Autumn Annals, explaining their origins, contents and how they became the Confucian canon. Nylan questions the assumption that these works were Confucian from the start.

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