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	<title>Comments on: Nobility titles in the Chunqiu - the elusive 公</title>
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	<description>Who's that Gong ?</description>
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		<dc:creator>how to lose 15 pounds in 3 months</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;"Im not fat Im just boxy!"...&lt;/strong&gt;

"and fruits and veggies are natural sugars, while that other stuff is processed sugar, which is awful for you.  natural sugars are good"...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>&#8220;Im not fat Im just boxy!&#8221;&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;and fruits and veggies are natural sugars, while that other stuff is processed sugar, which is awful for you.  natural sugars are good&#8221;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: fcharton</title>
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		<dc:creator>fcharton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>it is not gone, I stupidly left the moderation on... which meant I must read it before you could see it... this is disabled now</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it is not gone, I stupidly left the moderation on&#8230; which meant I must read it before you could see it&#8230; this is disabled now</p>
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		<title>By: baopu</title>
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		<dc:creator>baopu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I left a comment. Now its gone!</description>
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		<title>By: Bao Pu</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bao Pu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Francois,

Just to add some more information, Lothar Falkenhausen, in his article "The Concept of Wen in the Ancient Chinese Ancestral Cult" in &lt;i&gt;Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews&lt;/i&gt; (CLEAR), Vol. 18. (Dec., 1996) says of Gong:

"The meaning of gong in ancestral ritual is quite multifarious-in early contexts, it may mean "lineage head" or simply "ancestor."

Also, "The common translation of gong as "Duke" reflects the systematized set of aristocratic ranks recorded in late pre-Qin texts; inscriptions from earlier parts of the Zhou dynasty, however, fail to reveal
any indication that such a system existed in those times (see Si 1947, Wang 1983, and Sheng 1983). Gong is still used in funerary inscriptions in modem times meaning, generally, "ancestor."</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Francois,</p>
<p>Just to add some more information, Lothar Falkenhausen, in his article &#8220;The Concept of Wen in the Ancient Chinese Ancestral Cult&#8221; in <i>Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews</i> (CLEAR), Vol. 18. (Dec., 1996) says of Gong:</p>
<p>&#8220;The meaning of gong in ancestral ritual is quite multifarious-in early contexts, it may mean &#8220;lineage head&#8221; or simply &#8220;ancestor.&#8221;</p>
<p>Also, &#8220;The common translation of gong as &#8220;Duke&#8221; reflects the systematized set of aristocratic ranks recorded in late pre-Qin texts; inscriptions from earlier parts of the Zhou dynasty, however, fail to reveal<br />
any indication that such a system existed in those times (see Si 1947, Wang 1983, and Sheng 1983). Gong is still used in funerary inscriptions in modem times meaning, generally, &#8220;ancestor.&#8221;</p>
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