HACER 209412 Bis7 ~ 146 ERAS DR CBR TREES AL a a Re fe AX SERRATE AB BINTETS » BGS + — SPS OL/ PMS BEF Se RIT I + IESE ARPES FREES > ARPURCEAARE « BRE» STG + RABE ia AaiaRah At ORAS. HINA AT SUES * REE ca} "70 / Rae) +" CERHEDL) > DUCE RRPHIIIE ILA © =: ARRAS) » AEE - PENSE USERS) HUMP sti > ZERO FSP UNSEAT + ARTUR CARED SIR SICAL + ADEN (256) itt / THAT Deth) SOIT BTL Tis APSE ° HARE RI > BEALL SUS URE id / EES» DOERR ERTS DETR (S GBS + MeBUAAGS NaI eS » RNAI zeomd » CECE RRE ORIEN + SECURE RARE » SHRM SPACE © + SI (SRT RUE + URE fh Ra OD ARIS 98.08.28 HAG + 98.11.25 RBBB - + ALEBAE PORE ©148 BAT XM SR ak ASL) Be CEEKY (Ey > TSAR SCA» EAE E> CTE BCS AR SU Cae EBA » (can) AUD HE RADAR Be SEI WBGEES + ite + ALI RN + HBA» HR/ TRAA Study of Ideas about Revenge among Song Dynasty Scholars Lee Long -shien* Abstract This paper examines the range of views on revenge held by classical scholars during the Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE). The first section of this paper surveys historical concepts about revenge as played out across texts from pre-Qin times up to the Song period, with an eye toward the tension between the ethies of revenge and legal practices. Continuing the lines of inquiry opened by Tang scholars such as Chen Zi’ang (@-7-Fi), Liu Zongyuan (#127), and Han Yu (9% 1), Song scholars complicated Tang interpretations of revenge in the early “rites” clas This crop of new scholars in the Song developed increas ingly complex theoretical positions regarding revenge, such that “balancing li (#8) and legal justice” and “establishing the territorial boundaries of revenge” became some of their proposed strategies through which revenge could be accommodated or qualified In the mid-Tang, scholars such as Dan Zhu (#425), Zhao Kuang (ABE), and Lu Chun (2%) advocated “abandoning the commentaries to focus on the classic” as their interpretive approach to the Chungiu (#8), The subsequent section of this paper traces the influence of such an approach on Song scholars, who er icized ideas about revenge embedded in * Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University 13s