Buried Ideas

Allan, S 2015, Buried ideas: legends of abdication and ideal government in recently discovered early Chinese bamboo-slip manuscripts, SUNY Press, Albany.

This book discusses four excavated manuscripts: 唐虞之道, 子羔, 容成氏, and 保训.

唐虞之道 pronouncedly supports abdication.

子羔 sees virtue as the pivotal element of power transition.  

容成氏 provides a devolutionary history and pursues the harmony of heaven and earth.

保训 presents the notion of the center 中, literally(geographically) and figuratively.

See, pp. 324-326.