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The type of Confucian treatises (rujia lei 儒家類) is a sub-category to the literary category of masters and philosophers (zibu 子部) in the collectaneum Siku quanshu 四庫全書. There are some ancient writings tending towards Confucianism or originating from a Confucian tradition that were not included in the Confucian Classics. The most important of these books are the Xunzi 荀子 and the collections Kongzi jiayu 孔子家語 and Kongcongzi 孔叢子. There are a lot of Han period 漢 (206 BCE-220 CE) writings belonging to the Confucian tradition, like Lu Jia's 陸賈 Xinyu 新語, Jia Yi's 賈誼 Xinshu 新書, Yang Xiong's 楊雄 Fayan 法言 or Shen Yue's 荀悅 Shenjian 申鑒, and the large corpus of the Song period 宋 (960-1279) Neo-Confucian writings (lixue 理學, daoxue 道學) which had to be inserted into this section, as well as the the Yuan 元 (1279-1368) and Ming 明 (1368-1644) period Confucians. The 122 writings included in this section are not further divided but only arranged chronologically.
* not contained in the Siku quanshu
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Chinese literature according to the four-category system
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