春秋大义：中国传统语境下的皇权与学术

The Spring and Autumn Annals is esteemed as the canon of politics and philosophy for a long time in ancient China and it is regarded the only Confucian classic compiled by Confucius personally. How did The Spring and Autumn Annals and other classics play the dominating roles in the authoritarian society of two thousand years? And what is chun qiu da yi, which is considered the spirit of Chinese people? From the murder case of the Tang dynasty, the author revels how Chinese classic culture has been twisted to be the tool of power under the imperial reign from the Spring and Autumn period, with a great many vivid historical cases, rich textual research and rigid logic.