very good stuff
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is there any particular reason why a large amount of the oral tradition around the texts was not written down? or hasn't been distilled/summarized from the commentaries?
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first of all, the "four books" (Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Mencius) were not considered "central" to Confucianism in its first millennium, that was a late development
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second, there was an explicit attempt in the qin ("burning the books and burying the scholars") to crack down on philosophy third, all traditions have lost a lot (including the west, which produced texts in a much more complete state)
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