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Guodian
Author | : Kenneth Holloway |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2009-01-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780199707683 |
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Fourteen years ago, a corpus of bamboo-strip texts was found in a late-fourth-century-BCE tomb at Jingmen, Hubei province in central China. The discovery of the "Guodian" texts, together with other recently discovered Warring States manuscripts, has revolutionized the study of early Chinese intellectual history. Kenneth Holloway argues that the Guodian corpus puts forth a political philosophy based on the harmonious interconnection of individuals engaged in moral self cultivation. This unique worldview, says Holloway, cannot meaningfully be categorized as "Confucian" or "Daoist," because it shares important concepts and vocabulary with a number of different textual traditions that have anachronistically been characterized as competing or incompatible "schools" of thought. He finds that within the Guodian corpus familiar philosophical concepts and texts are applied in distinctive ways, presenting a worldview that is quite different from the received textual traditions. In addition to contributing to our understanding of this particular body of texts, Holloway proposes a methodology for assessing a corpus of texts without relying on assumptions and definitions that derive from two millennia of scholarship.
Chinese Annals in the Western Observatory
Author | : Edward Shaughnessy |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2019-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781501517105 |
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Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in China, opening whole new fields of study and transforming our modern understanding of ancient China. While these discoveries have necessarily taken place in China, Western scholars have also contributed to the study of these documents throughout this entire period. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the contributions of these Western scholars to the field of Chinese paleography, and especially to study of oracle-bone inscriptions, bronze and stone inscriptions, and manuscripts written on bamboo and silk. Each of these topics is provided with a comprehensive narrative history of studies by Western scholars, as well as an exhaustive bibliography and biographies of important scholars in the field. It is also supplied with a list of Chinese translations of these studies, as well as a complete index of authors and their works. Whether the reader is interested in the history of ancient China, ancient Chinese paleographic documents, or just in the history of the study of China as it has developed in the West, this book provides one of the most complete accounts available to date.
Filial Piety in Chinese Thought and History
Author | : Alan Kam-leung Chan,Sor-hoon Tan |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Conduct of life |
ISBN | : 0415333652 |
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The phenomenon of filial piety is fundamental to our understanding of Chinese culture. An international team of contributors provides an excellent collection of essays that explore its role in various areas of life throughout history.
Rewriting Early Chinese Texts
Author | : Edward L. Shaughnessy |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2006-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780791482353 |
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Rewriting Early Chinese Texts examines the problems of reconstituting and editing ancient manuscripts that will revise—indeed "rewrite"—Chinese history. It is now generally recognized that the extensive archaeological discoveries made in China over the last three decades necessitate such a rewriting and will keep an army of scholars busy for years to come. However, this is by no means the first time China's historical record has needed rewriting. In this book, author Edward L. Shaughnessy explores the issues involved in editing manuscripts, rewriting them, both today and in the past. The book begins with a discussion of the difficulties encountered by modern archaeologists and paleographers working with manuscripts discovered in ancient tombs. The challenges are considerable: these texts are usually written in archaic script on bamboo strips and are typically fragmentary and in disarray. It is not surprising that their new editions often meet with criticism from other scholars. Shaughnessy then moves back in time to consider efforts to reconstitute similar bamboo-strip manuscripts found in the late third century in a tomb in Jixian, Henan. He shows that editors at the time encountered many of the same difficulties faced by modern archaeologists and paleographers, and that the first editions produced by a court-appointed team of editors quickly prompted criticism from other scholars of the time. Shaughnessy concludes with a detailed study of the editing of one of these texts, the Bamboo Annals (Zhushu jinian), arguably the most important manuscript ever discovered in China. Showing how at least two different, competing editions of this text were produced by different editors, and how the differences between them led later scholars to regard the original edition—the only one still extant—as a forgery, Shaughnessy argues for this text's place in the rewriting of early Chinese history.
Daoism and Anarchism
Author | : John A. Rapp |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012-08-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781441132239 |
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This volume in the Contemporary Anarchist Studies examines anarchist themes in ancient and modern Chinese dissident political thought.
Studies on Contemporary Chinese Philosophy 1949 2009
Author | : Qiyong GUO |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2018-01-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789004360495 |
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Guo Qiyong’s edited volume offers a detailed look at research on Chinese philosophy published in Chinese from 1949-2009. The chapters in this volume are broken down into either the major themes or time periods in the history of Chinese philosophy.
Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature vol I
Author | : David R. Knechtges,Taiping Chang |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 2010-09-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9789004191273 |
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The long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide, this work offers a wealth of information on writers, genres, literary schools and terms of the Chinese literary tradition from earliest times to the seventh century C.E.
A Tripartite Self
Author | : Lisa Raphals |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780197630877 |
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"Chinese philosophy has long recognized the importance of the body and emotions in extensive and diverse self-cultivation traditions. Philosophical debates about the relationship between mind and body are often described in terms of mind-body dualism and its opposite, monism or some kind of "holism." Monist or holist views agree on the unity of mind and body, but with much debate about what kind, whereas mind-body dualists take body and mind to be metaphysically distinct entities. The question is important for several reasons. Several humanistic and scientific disciplines recognize embodiment as an important dimension of the human condition. One version, the problem of mind-body dualism, is central to the history of both philosophy and religion. Some account of relations between body and mind, spirit or soul is also central to any understanding of the self. Recent work in cognitive and neuroscience underscores the importance of our somatic experience for how we think and feel"--