a school of Confucianism based on classics written in the contemporary script of the Han dynasty

A collection of 29 chapters of the Book of Documents, recorded in the Han dynasty clerical script after the original texts were destroyed during the Qin dynasty; it preserves ancient historical and political records used as models for governance and self-cultivation.

Confucian classics of the Han dynasty based on oral transmission and recorded in the clerical script (lishu) prevalent at the time, as opposed to the Old Script Classics [[古文经|古文經|gu3 wen2 jing1]]

A dominant Han dynasty school of Confucianism that studied Classics written in the contemporary clerical script of that era. It was established as official state doctrine under Emperor Wu, often emphasizing the political and social reforms found in the [[春秋公羊传|春秋公羊傳|chun1 qiu1 gong1 yang2 zhuan4]]. The school saw a major revival in the mid-Qing dynasty as a theoretical basis for social reform.