The recorded talk of the philosopher who died at Kaoting in Jianyang, Fujian, on 23 April 1200 under a court ban on his 'false learning'. The later juan (on the dynasty's institutions, on contemporaries and on 'the present age') catch his view of the Song state, the Jin, the frontier, the examinations and the court faction of Han Tuozhou from the mouths of disciples who sat with him in 1198 to 1200. It is the main witness to the circle of scholars at Kaoting in the opening months of 1200 and to the mood of the proscribed Daoxue party, whose members (Cai Yuanding died in exile in 1198) fill the Song political world of 1200.
About this source
- Title
- Zhuzi yulei (朱子語類)
- Author
- Zhu Xi (朱熹), recorded by his disciples and compiled by Li Jingde (黎靖德)
- Author's dates
- Zhu Xi 18 October 1130 to 23 April 1200
- Written
- conversations recorded 1170 to 1200; Li Jingde's compilation printed 1270
- Language
- Chinese
- Covers
- Zhu Xi's teaching over the last thirty years of his life, arranged by topic in 140 juan
- Kind
- Collection of sources
Only selections are translated (Gardner, Learning to Be a Sage, 1990, under copyright). Zhu Xi's letters in the Zhu Wengong wenji are the other witness to 1199 and 1200 but are not entered separately here. The Wikipedia article is on the man.
Where to read it
Editions
- Zhonghua Shuju punctuated edition, 8 vols (1986) (not freely online)