Dedication

pp.：  5 – 10

List of Maps, Figures, and Tables

pp.：  11 – 12

introduction: the zhengsheng 正聲 mode

pp.：  13 – 46

Showing Up in Shishuo xinyu

pp.：  13 – 16

Biography Large and Small

pp.：  17 – 23

A More Real Xuan

pp.：  24 – 33

Directions Toward a More Real Xuanxue

pp.：  29 – 33

Conclusions, Findings, and Suggestions

pp.：  34 – 40

Xun Xu's Use of Zhou Antiquity

pp.：  34 – 34

Politics of Precision

pp.：  35 – 36

Archeology, Historiography, and the History of Sciences and Technologies

pp.：  37 – 38

The Earliest Sources for Xun Xu's Life

pp.：  39 – 40

The Seven Chapters and Acknowledgments

pp.：  41 – 46

1. the xuns of yingyin and luoyang

pp.：  47 – 102

Commemorating Kin and Supporting Learning: Yingchuan to about 212 AD

pp.：  50 – 68

The Lay of the Land

pp.：  52 – 54

Xun Leadership In and Around Yingyin

pp.：  55 – 61

The "Commemorative Tablet 碑 for Prefect of Palace Writers Xun Yu"

pp.：  62 – 63

Xun Yijing Scholarship

pp.：  64 – 68

The Xuns in Luoyang to about 282: Sorting Out Zhengshi Styles and Establishing Jin Imperial Ties

pp.：  69 – 86

Xun Can, a Prototype of the Zhengshi-era Mavericks

pp.：  71 – 73

Xun Yi and the Traditional Path Followed by Can's Older Siblings

pp.：  74 – 76

The Impact of Xun Scholarship in Luoyang

pp.：  77 – 80

Xun Musicologists and Legists

pp.：  81 – 83

Xun Xu's Foothold onto a New Career

pp.：  84 – 86

Xun-Family Pathos in an Entombed Epitaph of 295 AD

pp.：  87 – 89

Commemoration for Xun Yue of Yingchuan Yingyin, Jin-[Era] Late Gentleman-in-Attendance of the Palace Writers

pp.：  90 – 95

Xun Wives and Daughters

pp.：  92 – 93

Material and Evocative Aspects of Xun Burials

pp.：  94 – 95

Memory and Counter-Memory

pp.：  96 – 102

2. xun xu's first posts, ca. 248–265

pp.：  103 – 132

The Political Taint of Cao Shuang's Regime, 240–249

pp.：  106 – 114

Former Cao-Wei Men as Ethically Correct Jin Stalwarts

pp.：  112 – 114

The Cooperative Exegete

pp.：  115 – 118

Factions

pp.：  119 – 122

Anti-Xun Xu Roots in the Wu War Factionalism

pp.：  121 – 122

The Tone of Xun Xu's Early Career

pp.：  123 – 129

Factions as Cooperative Struggle

pp.：  130 – 132

3. aesthetics and precision in court ritual songs, ca. 266–272

pp.：  133 – 172

Wealth and Collecting; Design and Construction

pp.：  135 – 136

A Coterie of Lyric-Writers for Court Music

pp.：  137 – 144

Higher and Lower Music; Court Music and Party Music

pp.：  139 – 144

A Lyric-Writing Competition

pp.：  145 – 161

The Song-Writers as Political Actors

pp.：  148 – 151

Competing Lyrics for the Dance-Song Performances

pp.：  152 – 161

A Turn toward an Aesthetic of Precision

pp.：  162 – 172

The Aesthetic and Philosophic Thrust of Xun's Lyrics

pp.：  165 – 166

Who Was the Xun Balladeer?

pp.：  167 – 172

4. commandeering staff and proclaiming precision, ca. 273–274

pp.：  173 – 226

High-Stepping into Bureaus and Imperial Holdings

pp.：  175 – 182

Problems in the Bureaucratic Structure of the Palace Writers Office

pp.：  176 – 179

An Archival Project with Zhang Hua

pp.：  180 – 182

The Wider World of Metrology

pp.：  183 – 186

Xun Xu's Metrology

pp.：  187 – 194

Xun Xu the Hypersentient "Metrosophist"

pp.：  189 – 190

Xun Chuo, Writing For and About Family

pp.：  191 – 191

The Earliest Descriptions of the Process behind Xun's Metrology

pp.：  192 – 194

The Inner Story of Xun's Metrology

pp.：  195 – 198

The Antiquarian Flurry

pp.：  199 – 208

Xun Xu's 274 ad Colophon Stating Seven Old Devices as Metrological Witnesses

pp.：  203 – 205

Tracing Ghosts of the Official Bronze Foot-Rule of Jin

pp.：  206 – 208

Li Chunfeng's Antiquarian Jury

pp.：  209 – 218

Li Chunfeng Throws Solvent on Legend and Evidence

pp.：  215 – 218

Ritual Mensuration, Music, and Early Sciences

pp.：  219 – 226

The Prisca Zhou

pp.：  220 – 223

Habits of Science in the Third Century: Status, Sites, Techniques

pp.：  224 – 226

5. a martinet of melody, ca. 274–277

pp.：  227 – 290

Problems of Pipes and Pitches

pp.：  229 – 239

Flutes, Regulated Pitch, and Musical Scales

pp.：  229 – 236

Xun Xu's Regulators and Di-Flutes

pp.：  237 – 239

Xun Xu's Flutes Versus Lie He's Mode

pp.：  240 – 267

Songshu's Bundle of Documents On Xun Xu's Musicology

pp.：  240 – 243

Annotated Translation of Xun Xu's Memorial of 274 ad and Xun's Dialog with Lie He

pp.：  244 – 267

Songshu Part 17: Xun Xu's Flute Temperament and the Impact of New Modes

pp.：  268 – 276

The Pitch Distortions That Xun Xu's New Flute Indirectly Attempted to Solve

pp.：  271 – 274

The Modal Variety That Xun Xu Attempted to Thwart

pp.：  275 – 276

Proto-Sage Versus Martinet

pp.：  277 – 290

Ruan Xian's Complaint: The Flutes Are Shrill and Laden with Grief

pp.：  278 – 280

Ruan Xian in Mundane Terms

pp.：  281 – 283

The Ruan Xian and Shan Tao Legends as Framed by Western Jin Politics

pp.：  284 – 290

6. a new day, new antiquities, new factions, ca. 277–284

pp.：  291 – 362

Policies That Shooed Off the Princes and Promoted the Rank-and-File

pp.：  293 – 297

A New Day: Victory Celebrations

pp.：  298 – 301

First Reactions to the Ji Tomb

pp.：  302 – 316

Antiquities Emerge as Victory Is Celebrated

pp.：  304 – 306

Translation of the"Mu Tianzi Zhuan" Preface by Xun Xu's Official Team, Written 282–83

pp.：  307 – 312

The Team Members

pp.：  313 – 316

The Ji-Tomb Texts Are Folded into Ongoing Work on the Jin Palace Classics Register (Jin Zhongjing Bu)

pp.：  317 – 323

The Rest of the World Weighs In

pp.：  324 – 336

Calligraphy and Access

pp.：  325 – 331

The Zhang Hua Ambit

pp.：  332 – 336

Xun Xu and Zhang Hua as Forces in the Jin Offices for Historiography

pp.：  337 – 345

Changes in Methods of Historiography

pp.：  346 – 357

Chronology as Theory and Practice

pp.：  346 – 347

Xun Xu's Attempt to Impose a Zhou Chronology in the "First" Annals Edition

pp.：  348 – 349

The Use of Shiji, and Several Candidates for the "Other" Annals Edition

pp.：  350 – 357

A Foot-Rule Bubbles Up as Attacks on Xun Xu Begin

pp.：  358 – 362

7. "they've stolen my phoenix pool", 284–89 and beyond

pp.：  363 – 394

Zhi Yu's Ambit and a New Anti-Xunism

pp.：  364 – 376

Zhi Yu's and Wang Jie's Ideas about the Historiographical Value of Commentaries

pp.：  365 – 373

Xun Xu in a Time of Anti-Xunism

pp.：  374 – 376

Assessments in 286 of Hua Qiao's History of Later Han

pp.：  377 – 378

Xun Xu's Demotion and Demise

pp.：  379 – 381

The Post-Xun Xu Resumption of the Debate about Where to Begin the Jin Dynasty

pp.：  382 – 385

Prisca Antiqua: The Spirit of Western Jin Scholarship and Letters

pp.：  386 – 394

The Primordial as Contactable

pp.：  387 – 389

The Personal as Contactable

pp.：  390 – 394

Bibliography

pp.：  395 – 408

Index

pp.：  409 – 426