Dong Zhongshu

Dong Zhongshu
Portrait of Dong Zhongshu (National Palace Museum)
Chinese董仲舒
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDǒng Zhòngshū
Wade–GilesTung3 Chung4-shu1
IPA[tʊ̀ŋ ʈʂʊ̂ŋ.ʂú]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationDúng Jùhng-syū
JyutpingDung2 Zung4-syu1
IPA[tʊŋ˧˥ tsʊŋ˩.sy˥]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJTáng Tiōng-soo
Middle Chinese
Middle ChineseTúng ɖjùwng-sho
Old Chinese
Baxter–Sagart (2014)Tˤongʔ N-trung-s l̥a

Dong Zhongshu (Chinese: 董仲舒; Wade–Giles: Tung Chung-shu; 179–104 BC) was a Chinese philosopher, politician, and writer of the Han dynasty. He is traditionally associated with the promotion of Confucianism as the official ideology of the Chinese imperial state, favoring heaven worship over the tradition of cults celebrating the five elements.[1] Enjoying great influence in the court in the last decades of his life,[2] his adversary Gongsun Hong ultimately promoted his partial retirement from political life by banishing him to the Chancellery of Weifang, but his teachings were transmitted from there.[1]

  1. ^ a b Loewe, Michael (2011-04-11). Dong Zhongshu, a ‘Confucian’ Heritage and the Chunqiu Fanlu. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-19465-6.
  2. ^ Queen, Sarah Ann (1996-08-28). From Chronicle to Canon: The Hermeneutics of the Spring and Autumn According to Tung Chung-shu. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-48226-4.

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