Glossary of Shangshu exegesis

This is a glossary of Shangshu (Shujing) exegesis (for further details on the early Chinese text, see the main article “Book of Documents”).

The glossary of the Book of Documents exegesis pertains to the transmission and commentary history of the Shangshu (simplified Chinese: 尚书; traditional Chinese: 尚書; pinyin: Shàngshū; Wade–Giles: Shang-shu), also called Shujing (simplified Chinese: 书经; traditional Chinese: 書經; pinyin: Shūjīng; Wade–Giles: Shu-ching), often abbreviated with Shu (simplified Chinese: 书; traditional Chinese: 書; pinyin: Shū) as an alternative short title, a historical Chinese text which is known in English under the titles Book of Documents or Book of History or the Classic of History, one of the Five Classics of Confucianism, a compilation of speeches, edicts, and historical records attributed to ancient sage-kings and ministers, traditionally said to have been edited by Confucius. It preserves some of the earliest historiographical and political writings in China. There are two main Shangshu versions: the → Old Script Shangshu (58 chapters) and → Modern Script Shangshu (28 chapters), see also the → Forged Old Script Shangshu. Since the Han dynasty, numerous scholars have produced countless commentaries and annotations on the Shangshu (Shujing).

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