The Great Commentary on the Documents Classic / Shangshu dazhuan尚書大傳

An early commentary on one of the Chinese Five Classics The Documents classic ( Shangshu ) was central to the political life of imperial China. This owed much to the lively commentarial activity surrounding the text in the first two centuries BCE. The Great Commentary serves as a lens on this commentarial work and reveals how the Documents classic was used to provide answers to pressing societal questions of the time. In this first English translation of the Great Commentary , Fan Lin and Griet