Reassesses editorial authority and authorship in the Book of Songs, highlighting Confucius's role and contrasting mainstream views.
This paper examines the author-proposed theory within Zongbo Studies that the Book of Songs (Shijing) was compiled and largely authored by Confucius and earlier Zhou figures, contrasting it with mainstream scholarship that regards the text as an anonymous anthology compiled over centuries.
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