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What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled?: Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China
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According to the Zuǒ zhuàn, in 607 BCE Zhào Chuān murdered Lord Líng of Jìn, but the Spring and Autumn ascribes the assassination to Zhào Dùn, senior member of the Zhào lineage and chief minister of Jìn. Remarks attributed to Confucius defend the ascription to Zhào Dùn, stating that had he fled across the border, he would have avoided blame. That Zhào Dùn was assigned responsibility for a crime he did not commit has been a source of much discussion and has been described as “false” or “inaccurate.” An overview of flights into exile (bēn 奔) in Spring and Autumn-period China indicates that although flight sometimes provided a practical mechanism for escaping difficulties, crossing the border without official sanction had substantial political and religious ramifications, including loss of position in the ancestral temple. Confucius's remark may be understood as framing Zhào Dùn's failure to flee across the border in terms of ritual or legal rules, implying that crossing the border would have removed him from a position of responsibility. Later versions of the story do not mention border crossing, focusing instead on moral responsibility, and their explanations of why blame was assigned to Zhào Dùn were attempts to rationalize recording practices that were based on earlier, Spring and Autumn-period norms, which no longer made sense in later times.
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“In most contemporary legal systems, running away does not allow criminals to be absolved of guilt, and even in early China, as shown by the case of Sòng 宋 nobleman Wàn 萬described below, flight was not always a way to succeed at getting away with murder .”
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“An overview of flights into exile (bēn 奔) in Spring and Autumn-period China indicates that although flight sometimes provided a practical mechanism for escaping difficulties, crossing the border without official sanction had substantial political and religious ramifications, including loss of position in the ancestral temple .”
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“The second part of this paper explores other versions of this story and its early reception, and reveals a shift in emphasis from lamenting Zhào Dùn's failure to flee to asserting that he bore responsibility because he did not punish the true murderer .”
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“The record concerning Zhào Dùn is but one of many in which the Spring and Autumn assigns responsibility to a person whom the Zuǒ zhuàn leads us to view as innocent, at least by most contemporary Western standards .”
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“Thus the Zuǒ zhuàn recounts cases in which a nobleman fled to another state, but his home state requested his return, as in the case of Wàn of Sòng, who fled after murdering his ruler but”
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“Later versions of the story do not mention border crossing, focusing instead on moral responsibility, and their explanations of why blame was assigned to Zhào Dùn were attempts to rationalize recording practices that were based on earlier, Spring and Autumn-period norms, which no longer made sense in later times .”
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“First, Spring and Autumn records of killings or assassinations never identify multiple killers but inevitably assign responsibility to a single person .”
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“More generally, records of “going out in flight” are often associated with criticism or negative evaluations of the fugitive, in contrast with records using the two other patterns .”
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“Although Zhào Dùn's case has attracted special notice because of his protests and because of the comments ascribed to Confucius, it is not unique; the Spring and Autumn contains other cases in which an ostensibly innocent person is recorded as an assassin .”
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“Comparison of Spring and Autumn records with corresponding Zuǒ zhuàn accounts of regicide reveals no clear rule .”
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“Regicide could also be ascribed to the individual who instigated the assassination plot, to someone who benefited from the death, or to the highest-ranking person involved, even if that person had little or no direct involvement .”
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“Corresponding Zuǒ zhuàn accounts indicate that individuals who “came fleeing” to Lǔ enjoyed formal reception and official recognition .”
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“Yet for individuals accused of crimes, flight was not a foolproof way to escape trouble, and some fugitives were turned away or captured and sent back to their home states .”
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“The assassin identified in the Spring and Autumn was often not the person who, according to the Zuǒ zhuàn, actually wielded the murder weapon, and he was not necessarily present when the killing took place .”
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“An overview of flights into exile (bēn 奔) in Spring and Autumn-period China indicates that although flight sometimes provided a practical mechanism for escaping difficulties, crossing the border without official sanction had substantial political and religious ramifications, including loss of position in the ancestral temple .”
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“Although not all records of “going out in flight” are preceded by records of the fugitive's alleged misconduct, many correspond to Zuǒ zhuàn narratives that reveal that the person who fled had engaged in wrongdoing or was facing punishment in his home state .”
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“On at least one occasion, someone who fled was not only permitted to do so, but his household members and belongings were later sent after him .”
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“During the Spring and Autumn period, flight provided a practical mechanism for escaping difficulties in one's home state, and those who fled were typically escaping a bad situation rather than being drawn to a good situation elsewhere .”
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“he instead chose to commit suicide, stating that other states would believe the slander and not receive him .29”
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“Moreover, although some assassins who fled into exile were sent back and executed, the ultimate fate of most who fled is unknown .”
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“The crime in Sòng was not regicide but the murder of the late ruler's son, and unlike Zhào Dùn, Huà Yuán was not kin to the criminal .”
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“After Zǐxián fled, his ruler sent someone to urge him to turn back, but he refused to do so .Later, when asked to take office in Jìn, he also refused, saying that this would cause others to suspect he had fled Wèi to take office elsewhere, and he did not wish his motive to be questioned .”
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“Zhào Dùn's case was particularly unusual since, although he was recorded as an assassin in the official record of his home state, he was not executed, and after his return he continued to play an active role as a Jìn official .”
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“Some individuals fled after being accused of crimes such as assassination or fomenting rebellion, but others offended their rulers by speaking too freely and admonishing their rulers or disagreeing with their decisions .”
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“Subsequently, the ruler's younger brother Zǐxián 子鮮(also called Zhuān 鱄) fled in protest, saying: 賞罰無章．何以沮勸．君失其信．而國無刑． Reward and punishment have no standard!How can [bad] be blocked and [good] be encouraged?The lord has lost his trustworthiness and the state is without [appropriate] punishment .(Zuǒ, Xiāng 27, 1128)”
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“The reason that Zhào Dùn was persecuted was that he had openly admonished Lord Líng for his immoral conduct, and Lord Líng had made it clear that he would not change his ways .”
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“Declaring that his crime was great for not correcting the situation, Huà Yuán fled to Jìn .Eventually he was convinced to return, but he consented only under the condition that he be allowed to avenge the crime, which he did upon his return .31”
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“This is confirmed by the account of an earlier Wèi ruler, Lord Xiàn 獻, who also fled but who did cross the border .After his departure, a Lǔ visitor to Wèi stated that the Lǔ ruler had “heard that your ruler is not in charge of the altars of earth and grain and has crossed the borders into another realm” 聞君不撫社稷而越在他 竟 .42”
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“The Zuǒ zhuàn asserts that such reports formed the basis of many Spring and Autumn records .46”
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“Second, many mention ancestral sacrifices and assert that a consequence of flight into exile was abandoning the altars or cutting off ancestral sacrifices .”
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“In response he was told, “if he is still within the borders, then he is the Wèi ruler” 猶在竟內，則衛君也 .41 Gōngsūn Qīng thus paid his visit to the ruler, even though he had left the capital and was camping in the wilderness .”
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“These cases included flight after committing an assassination, flight during a succession struggle, or fleeing only to return to lead an insurrection .”
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“At first reading, this claim appears to defy logic, for Luán Yíng most certainly was a nobleman of Jìn, and the Gōngyáng commentators definitely knew this, since he is referred to as such in the record of his flight from Jìn in Xiāng 21, two years prior .”
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“Cases in which a nobleman engaged in similar misconduct, did not flee, and was killed are recorded with the words “his nobleman”; instances lacking the words “his nobleman” differ only in that the victim was killed after fleeing to another state .”
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“Zhào Dùn's aborted flight was not the only case in which someone fled but did not leave the state .At least two other Zuǒ zhuàn narratives concern noblemen who fled only as far as the border .”
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“Apparently, a similar distinction applied to killings of noblemen .The majority of killings of noblemen are recorded in the Spring and Autumn with the phrase “killed their nobleman” 殺其大夫 .In such cases, the nobleman was from the same state as his killer .48”
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“By way of background, we must first note that Spring and Autumn records of cases in which a ruler or heir was killed abroad typically use phrasing different from that used when the killing took place in his home state .Similarly, if the killer was from a different state, the record uses shā殺'kill' instead of shì 弒 'assassinate, commit regicide', a verb whose use is restricted to the killing of a”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > crossing the BorDer
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“Unfortunately for Gōngzǐ Dì, his brother miscalculated .The ruler did not stop him and subsequently refused to heed his brother's pleas on his behalf .In the end, both brothers fled the state .”
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“In this connection, we may also observe that names (míng名) of regional rulers were not included in the majority of Spring and Autumn records, and the subset of records that employ rulers' names should be considered a special or “marked” group . 54”
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“Gōngyáng is mainly concerned with Zhào Dùn's failure to punish the criminal, and asserts that this failure was the reason he was recorded as the assassin .”
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“Curiously, the Gōngyáng version of Zhào Dùn's story does not appear in conjunction with the record of Lord Líng's assassination in Xuān 2 .Instead, it is placed to correspond to a later but unrelated record that mentions Zhào Dùn, in Xuān 6 .”
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“These accounts differ in length, and some works contain more than one version .”
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“Two other versions, one in Shǐ jì and the other in Kǒngzǐ jiāyǔ, closely resemble the Zuǒ zhuàn narrative in content and phrasing, and likewise quote both the Dǒng Hú and Confucius .”
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“This narrative is similar to the story told in the Zuǒ zhuàn, but it is not integrated with the account of Lord Líng's assassination .Instead, it is presented separately, as part of the response to the question, why did Zhào Dùn return?”
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“The emphasis of the Gǔliáng account differs from that of the Zuǒ zhuàn and related versions .Confucius's comment does not occur, and although Gǔliáng, like Zuǒ zhuàn, includes the dialogue between Zhào Dùn and the scribe Dǒng Hú, the phrasing is somewhat different, and Zhào Dùn's flight is presented not as an attempt to escape but as a protest in response to Lord Líng's failure to heed his admon”
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“significantly with respect to whether they mention Zhào Dùn's flight, and if so, what they say about it .”
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“Elsewhere, Gōngyáng also mentions that unheeded ministers should flee, but it does not apply this principle to Zhào Dùn's case .”
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“The Gōngyáng passage translated above is followed by a somewhat longer narrative that recounts Lord Líng's misconduct, Zhào Dùn's admonitions, and Lord Líng's repeated yet unsuccessful attempts on Zhào Dùn's life .”
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“The Zuǒ zhuàn version, translated at the outset of this study, not only mentions Zhào Dùn's flight but also narrates Zhào Dùn's interaction with the Jìn scribe Dǒng Hú and quotes Confucius's commentary .”
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“It differs from other versions in that it neither refers to Zhào Dùn's guilt or innocence in Lord Líng's death nor does it mention the act of recording the assassination .”
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“As in the Zuǒ zhuàn, the scribe observes that Zhào Dùn neither crossed the border nor punished the criminal, and Confucius laments that if only he had crossed the border, he would have avoided blame .”
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“Not surprisingly, the Chūnqiū fán lù passage resembles Gōngyáng in that it is primarily concerned with the fact that Zhào Dùn did not personally assassinate his ruler but was still recorded as the assassin, and elaborates on the Gōngyáng assertion that this judgment was made because Zhào Dùn bore moral responsibility as a consequence of his failure to punish Zhào Chuān .”
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“These allusions all criticize Zhào Dùn for his failure to avenge the crime and, like Gōngyáng, assert that this failure was the reason that Lord Líng's assassination was ascribed to him .”
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“The Spring and Autumn records themselves display deep concern with relative hierarchy and with ritually significant events, and many common types of records, such as those of the Lǔ ruler's return from abroad, are connected to religious ceremonies but have no obvious connection with morality or intent .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > conclusions: Zhào Dùn anD spring and autumn historiograPhY
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“Apparently, these failures rendered him culpable for the crime .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > Abstract
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“Zhào Dùn himself is not directly implicated in the killing in the Zuǒ zhuàn narrative, and accounts in other texts concur that he did not personally commit the murder .”
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“The two works do not always agree; that is, there are cases in which the information given in the Spring and Autumn appears to conflict with that in the Zuǒ zhuàn .”
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“According to the Zuǒ zhuàn, in 607 Bce Zhào Chuān murdered Lord Líng of Jìn, but the Spring and Autumn ascribes the assassination to Zhào Dùn, senior member of the Zhào lineage and chief minister of Jìn .”
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“That account tells us that Jìn ruler Lord Líng 靈公(whose personal name was Yígāo 夷臯) was murdered not by Zhào Dùn 趙盾, senior member of the Zhào lineage and chief minister of Jìn, but by one Zhào Chuān 趙穿, his junior kinsman .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > Abstract
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- Not matchedcites CQ, Xuān 2.4,650
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- Not matchedcites Zuǒ, Xuān 2, 663
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“Whereas Spring and Autumn records are brief, formulaic notations, as illustrated by the record of Lord Líng's assassination, the bulk of the Zuǒ zhuàn comprises narrative accounts, many (but not all) of which correspond to Spring and Autumn records, albeit with significantly more detail .”
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“An alternative view associates the Spring and Autumn with religious practice, including ritual announcements (gào 告) and the ancestral cult .”
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“It almost certainly originated as an official record of Lǔ, but the provenance of the current text is disputed .”
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“The Spring and Autumn is a register of selected events recorded from the perspective of the ancient Chinese state of Lǔ, covering 722 to 479 bce .”
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“That is, the court scribe did not allege that Zhào Dùn had personally killed his ruler but observed that he had neither crossed the border nor punished the offense upon his return .”
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- Not matchedcites Zuǒ, Xuān 2, 663
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“The scribe then displayed the record in the Jìn court, presumably to make public his judgment that Zhào Dùn bore responsibility for the assassination .”
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“it has been claimed that the record treated Zhào Dùn as morally culpable because, as chief minister, he failed to punish the actual killer .”
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“The Zuǒ zhuàn is one of the three primary commentaries or “traditions” (zhuàn 傳) to the Spring and Autumn and, as such, is closely related to the Spring and Autumn, but it diverges significantly in form and content .”
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“The court scribe recorded, saying, “Zhào Dùn assassinated his ruler,” and showed it to the court .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > Abstract
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- Not matchedcites Zuǒ, Xuān 2, 663
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“Remarks attributed to Confucius defend the ascription to Zhào Dùn, stating that had he fled across the border, he would have avoided blame .”
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“Confucius said, “Dǒng Hú was a good scribe of old; his rules for recording did not conceal [responsibility] .Zhào Xuānzǐ was a good nobleman of old; on account of these rules [of recording] he accepted humiliation .6 What a pity, had he crossed the border, he would have avoided blame!””
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“Nonetheless, the connection of the Spring and Autumn with religious practice appears to be supported by its highly regular structure and formulaic language together with its attention to hierarchy and apparent ritual avoidances .”
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“Cases of individuals “coming in flight,” like those of rulers who “fled,” are not associated with criticism; presumably the fact that Lǔ accepted these fugitives meant that Lǔ did not view them as criminals, even if their home state regarded them in a different light .”
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“Assuming that similar rules applied to the Jìn records, this means that when the scribe Dǒng Hú recorded Lord Líng's murder, naming both Zhào Dùn and Zhào Chuān would not have been an option .”
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“States were also criticized for harboring fugitives, and taking in someone whom another state deemed a criminal could generate discord .27”
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“Thus some flights were surreptitious escapes by the fugitive without the state's knowledge or consent, others were punishments enforced by the government, and still others may have been instances in which a fugitive was quietly allowed to flee, with the government's tacit consent .”
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“I propose that the case of Zhào Dùn likely involved formal rules that connected flight (or in Zhào Dùn's case, failure to flee) with assignment of responsibility in official records such as the Spring and Autumn or the Jìn record referred to in this account, and that Confucius's remark was aimed at pointing out that both the record made by the good scribe Dǒng Hú and Zhào Dùn's begrudging accept”
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“Yet the Spring and Autumn itself was produced by a different and earlier historiographic tradition, and in analyzing Zhào Dùn's case, it is necessary to take the characteristics of this tradition into account .”
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“But if Confucius is to be believed, running away did sometimes result in an “innocent” verdict in the official records, or at least, the absence of a record indicating guilt .”
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“The reception history of the story of Zhào Dùn illustrates how, as cultural and religious practices changed, the understanding of particular events was transformed and early recording practices were forgotten and displaced .”
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“It is thus not particularly surprising that Zhào Dùn was named the assassin and assigned responsibility for his ruler's murder, for not only had he been the target of several murder attempts initiated by Lord Líng and thus benefited from his death, but perhaps more significantly, he was the chief minister of Jìn and also the senior male relative of the killer .”
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“The statement ascribed to Confucius clearly implies that if Zhào Dùn had left Jìn, he would not have been assigned blame .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > Abstract
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“In short, outcomes varied, and (as in the case of Wàn of Sòng) flight did not necessarily allow criminals to avoid punishment .”
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“For them, flight may have been a pragmatic mechanism that allowed the fugitive to avoid retaliation from an angry ruler, but-as observed by Zhāng Sùqīng and mentioned above-such flights were also framed as ministerial protests against misconduct .”
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“This sort of self-imposed exile differs from flight after committing a crime or in fear for one's life .Individuals who fled in protest often expected to be asked to return, unlike those who fled in disgrace or fear .”
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“In this case, Huà Yuán fled to protest his own situation, that of being unable to punish wrongdoing .He leveraged requests for his return to achieve a desired outcome, namely, permission to avenge a murder .”
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“Another account associated with protest concerns the flight of Sòng minister Huà Yuán 華元, an account that bears some resemblance to that of Zhào Dùn .Like Zhào Dùn, Huà Yuán was a powerful minister in his home state who fled but later returned .In both cases, a murder was committed by a nobleman, who (at least initially) went unpunished .”
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“Apparently, flight was a punishment less severe than death, but it was not always an option, and because receiving welcome in a foreign state was not always assured, those branded criminals who had the option to flee did not always do so .”
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“Thus it is also possible that Zhào Dùn realized his counsel would not be heeded, and his flight may have been an act of overt protest .”
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“Zhào Dùn had been persecuted by Lord Líng, who had attempted to murder him on multiple occasions, and so Zhào Dùn may have fled in fear for his life .”
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“It is unlikely that he fled to distance himself from Zhào Chuān's murder of Lord Líng-the Zuǒ zhuàn account suggests the regicide occurred after he had departed but before he had crossed the border-and (unlike Huà Yuán of Sòng) he certainly did not flee because he was not permitted to punish the murderer for his crime .”
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“Crossing the border (yuè jìng越竟) seems to have been the point at which a ruler's status changed, and as shown below, a similar standard apparently applied to nobility .”
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“Obviously, traveling across the border of a state was necessary on some occasions, as for diplomatic visits or military expeditions .Such border crossings had to be approved by the ruler, who gave his sanction (mìng命), and officially sanctioned border crossings had religious significance and were accompanied by various rites and were reported (gào告) to the ancestors .33”
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“Flights, like officially sanctioned border crossings, were also subject to ceremonial reports or announcements (gào) in the ancestral temple, although we do not know if all flights were reported to the ancestors, and the reason for the report seems to have been different .”
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“Whether or not the person who fled had crossed the border determined his status, and in the case of a ruler, whether he was still considered the ruler .”
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“In short, crossing the border and leaving one's home state required the ruler's sanction, and all kinds of sanctioned border crossing, including leaving and returning to one's home state and arriving in another state, had religious significance and were accompanied by religious activity .38”
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“These reports were framed in religious terms and castigated the individual who fled, not for the misconduct of which he was accused, but for the act of abandoning his obligations to the ancestors .45”
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“When a ruler or nobleman fled, he crossed the border without official sanction and without completing the ceremonial steps regularly required when one left his home state .39”
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“For a ruler, this meant loss of status as head of state, and for the senior member of a lineage, such as Zhào Dùn, we may surmise that crossing the border would have resulted in loss of status as lineage head as well as loss of political office .”
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“Thus, it was not the case that the phrase “their nobleman” was omitted as a consequence of the misconduct itself .Rather, the very act of fleeing affected the nobleman's status together with the form of the record .”
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“Both of these accounts indicate that if a nobleman fled, as long as he had not crossed the border, the ruler could stop him and request his return, and presumably his status would be unaffected .”
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“In short, crossing the border without sanction, that is, flight into exile, was of far greater significance than simply escaping punishment and going to live in a new place; it also involved leaving one's position within one's state and lineage, with attendant political and religious consequences for oneself and perhaps one's kin .”
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“One account tells us that when Gōngzǐ Dì 公子地 of Sòng offended his ruler, his brother gave him the following advice: 「子為君禮．不過出竟．君必止子．」 “You should act with ritual courtesy for the sake of the ruler .[Flee but] do not go as far as going out of the borders .The ruler will certainly stop you .”(Zuǒ, Dìng 10, 1582-83) This seems to have been a strategy aimed at allowing the ruler to forgive Gōngzǐ Dì”
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“Reports directed at rulers of other states may have been aimed at ensuring that the fugitive was not received elsewhere and in this respect may have been political in nature, but they explicitly invoke the fugitive's responsibilities to the ancestral temple, emphasizing the religious ramifications of flight .”
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“Significantly, only after they had fled across the border were others appointed to their offices .This suggests that, despite their having left the capital and ceased to fulfill their political duties, they did not fully abdicate their positions until after they had crossed the border and left Sòng .”
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“At first glance, this may appear to be an instance in which Confucius advocated an escape through a technical loophole, but if border crossing entailed a fundamental loss of status visà-vis the ancestors, then Zhào Dùn's contemporaries would have viewed this not as a mere technicality but as a very serious matter .”
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“and that Zhào Dùn returned only after Lord Líng had been killed and no longer posed a threat .”
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“Unlike other versions of this story, these three are all concerned with how the scribe recorded the assassination and assigned the crime to Zhào Dùn along with his flight and failure to cross the border, and they are surely derived from a common source .”
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“According to this interpretation, the remark ascribed to Confucius frames the situation as a matter of formal ceremonial rules that linked position within the politico-religious system to assignment of responsibility .”
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“Typically, an individual who has been recorded as having committed a crime is not mentioned again in subsequent Spring and Autumn records, and thus Gōngyáng includes the story in order to explain the unexpected reference to Zhào Dùn .”
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“A ruler who fled ceased to be recognized as the ruler, and a nobleman who fled was no longer considered a nobleman of his home state, and those who fled were understood to have abandoned their obligations to the ancestors .”
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“Presumably, the crime was ascribed to him not because of his active complicity but because of his official position in the court and his status as senior male kinsman of the actual assassin .”
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“it describes Zhào Chuān as the actual murderer, thus establishing that this was the accepted view of events .There is no alternative version in which Zhào Dùn wielded the murder weapon .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > recePtion in Pre-iMPerial anD earlY iMPerial texts
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“This interpretation implies that, for reasons we no longer fully understand, Confucius deemed relinquishing one's position in the government and lineage to be preferable to being recorded as an assassin in the official records .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > crossing the BorDer
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- Rests on an assumption: Crossing the border without completing proper ceremonies or receiving official sanction caused loss of ministerial position and lineage position, and released Zhào Dùn from the obligation to punish the assassin.
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“The way in which crossing the border would have permitted Zhào Dùn to have escaped blame may be understood in light of this change of status .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > crossing the BorDer
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In the paper
“Their explanations of why blame was assigned to Zhào Dùn can thus be viewed as a series of attempts to rationalize recording practices that were based on Spring and Autumn-period norms that had been forgotten or that no longer made sense in a later cultural context and as part of a broader trend to reframe the rules-based historiography of the Spring and Autumn in terms of moral judgment and resp”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > conclusions: Zhào Dùn anD spring and autumn historiograPhY
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- The authors state this as an assumption: The link between crossing the border and loss of position belonged to a Spring and Autumn-period ritual system that was no longer fully understood when Gōngyáng and Gǔliáng were written down.
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In the paper
“Thus Zhào Dùn is criticized for neither going far and thereby completing his protest against Lord Líng, nor punishing the murderer after his return; both of these actions are understood by Gǔliáng as ways that Zhào Dùn could have properly discharged his ministerial obligations .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > Additional information
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In the paper
“Anecdotal evidence from the Zuǒ zhuàn suggests that state scribes may have had some leeway in how they recorded events in official histories such as the Spring and Autumn, and perhaps in whom the records held accountable for particular actions .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > conclusions: Zhào Dùn anD spring and autumn historiograPhY
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In the paper
“This interpretation emphasizes Zhào Dùn's moral obligation to punish the assassin and understands the Spring and Autumn record as passing judgment on him for failing to do so, but neglects the question of Zhào Dùn's flight .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > recePtion in Pre-iMPerial anD earlY iMPerial texts
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“That the account of Lord Líng's assassination and Zhào Dùn's flight and that of Lord Líng's attempts on Zhào Dùn's life appear separately in Gōngyáng lends confirmation to Vogelsang's proposal that the two accounts were originally independent and were later combined .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > recePtion in Pre-iMPerial anD earlY iMPerial texts
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- Not matchedcites Vogelsang, "From Anecdote to History," 104 n .29
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“These allusions suggest that by early imperial times, this interpretation had become the common and conventional one, and it is this view that is addressed by and reflected in most of the contemporary scholarly views set forth at the outset of this paper .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > recePtion in Pre-iMPerial anD earlY iMPerial texts
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“Gōngyáng understands Zhào Dùn's flight as an effort to preserve his own life, and in this respect differs from Zuǒ zhuàn, which does not unambiguously state the reason for Zhào Dùn's flight, and from Gǔliáng, which treats Zhào Dùn's flight as a righteous protest against an unvirtuous ruler .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > recePtion in Pre-iMPerial anD earlY iMPerial texts
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In the paper
“Gǔliáng does not mention Lord Líng's attempts to murder Zhào Dùn; this omission is highly significant, as it effectively eliminates the possibility of understanding Zhào Dùn's flight as an effort to save his own life .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > Additional information
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“The Gǔliáng commentary thus implies that Zhào Dùn's flight was neither an escape to avoid punishment or murder nor an abandonment of the altars, but it was intended as a conspicuous act of protest designed to send a message chastising the ruler, albeit a deficient one, since he did not go far .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > Additional information
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In the paper
“Chūnqiū fán lù thus repurposes Zhào Dùn's flight as a way to prove that he was not Lord Líng's actual assassin and at the same time uses it to demonstrate how the attribution of the assassination to Zhào Dùn in conjunction with references to him in later records exemplified Confucius's use of subtle words to convey moral judgments .”
§ What If Zhào Dùn Had Fled? Border Crossing and Flight into Exile in Early China > recePtion in Pre-iMPerial anD earlY iMPerial texts
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The authors state this as an assumption.
Similar recording rules applied to the Jìn records as to the Spring and Autumn.
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Crossing the border without completing proper ceremonies or receiving official sanction caused loss of ministerial position and lineage position, and released Zhào Dùn from the obligation to punish the assassin.
“Had Zhào Dùn fled across the border, that is, if he had violated formal ritual rules and had crossed the border without completing the proper ceremonies or receiving official sanction, he would have lost his ministerial position and would in turn have been absolved of the responsibilities associated with that position .”
The paper relies on this without support.
The formal rules that led Dǒng Hú to identify Zhào Dùn as Lord Líng's assassin would not have applied to Zhào Dùn if he had crossed the border.
“If Zhào Dùn had crossed the border, perhaps the formal rules that resulted in scribe Dǒng Hú identifying him as Lord Líng's assassin would not have applied to his case .”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The link between crossing the border and loss of position belonged to a Spring and Autumn-period ritual system that was no longer fully understood when Gōngyáng and Gǔliáng were written down.
“Presumably the connection between crossing the border and loss of position was part of a system of formal ritual practices that pertained to the multistate system of the Spring and Autumn period, but this system was no longer fully understood by the time Gōngyáng and Gǔliáng were written down .”
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- A Gǔliáng remark on a similar case (mentioned in n . 50 above) implies rejection but without explicitly mentioning going abroad, stating, "it does not say 'nobleman' because they loathed him" 不言「大夫」，惡之也; Gǔliáng, Xiāng 30, 16 .15b; citations of Gǔliáng refer to Chūnqiū Gǔliáng zhuàn Fàn shì jíjiě 春秋穀梁傳范氏集 解, comm . Fàn Níng 范甯 (339-401), SBBY . 53 . These five cases are CQ, Yǐn 4 .6, 35; Zhuāng 9 .6, 178; Xiāng 30 .7, 1169; and Āi 14 .14, 1681, plus Xiāng 23 .12, 1072 (translated above) . Zhuāng 9 .1, 177 also uses this pattern, but it is uncertain whether the victim had left the state . In a previous publication, I proposed a link between the omission of the phrase "their nobleman" and diachronic changes in Spring and Autumn recording practices, but I was wrong; Van Auken, "Could 'Subtle Words' Have Conveyed 'Praise and Blame'? The Implications of Formal Regularity and Variation in Spring and Autumn (Chūn qiū) Records," Early China 31 (2007): 102 .
- Zuǒ, Xuān 2, 663 also refers to Zhào Dùn's support in establishing Lord Líng's successor . 59 . Shǐ jì 39 .1675; for a different version, see Shǐ jì 43 .1782-83, which ascribes to the Gentleman (jūnzǐ 君子) words that are elsewhere spoken by the scribe, and omits Confucius's response, resulting in a tone more critical of Zhào Dùn . For a discussion comparing the Shǐ jì versions to the Zuǒ account, see Dorothee Schaab-Hanke, "The Junzi Prior to Confucius in the Shiji," paper presented at the 17th conference of the Warring States Group, Leiden, September 17-18, 2003; www .schaab-hanke .de/vortraege/Schaab-Hanke_WSWG17-paper .pdf, last accessed April 25, 2019;
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- Authors
- Van Auken, N. A.
- Venue
- Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Publisher
- American Oriental Society
- Published
- 2021-09-19
- Volume
- 139
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 0003-0279 (ISSN-L)
- 2169-2289
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- W2986761147
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- 1
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- 3
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- 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 3.46
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- journal article
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- en
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- Journal of the American Oriental Society (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Classical Studies and Philology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Philosophy, History, and Historiography
- Keywords
- Zuo Zhuan, Spring and Autumn period, Confucius, Ben, border crossing, ancestral temple, moral responsibility, textual transmission, Jin state
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