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Dao Companion to the Excavated Guodian Bamboo Manuscripts
This volume covers the philosophical, historical, religious, and interpretative aspects of the ancient Guodian bamboo manuscripts (郭店楚簡) which were disentombed in the Guodian Village in Hubei Province, China, in 1993. Considered to be the Chinese equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls, these manuscripts are archaeological finds whose importance cannot be underestimated. Many of the texts are without counterparts in the transmitted tradition, and they provide unique insights into the developments of Chinese philosophy in the period between the death of Confucius (551-479 BCE) and the writings of Mencius (c.372-289 BCE), and beyond. Divided into two parts, the book first provides inter-tex...
Material Culture and Asian Religions
Traditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging canonical texts penned in ‘classical’ languages. Not only has a focus on literary evidence shaped the dominant narratives about the religious histories of Asia, in both scholarship and popular culture, but it has contributed to the tendency to study different religious traditions in relative isolation from one another. Today, moreover, historical work is often based on modern textual editions and, increasingly, on electronic databases. What may be lost, in the process, is the visceral sense of the text as artifact – as a material object that formed part of a broader ma...
Textual Patterns and Cosmic Designs in Early China
Via a hermeneutics focused on Chinese numerology and concentric arrangements, this book offers a novel construal of the textual universe proper to early China writings. The author lays bare distinguishable patterns of textual composition while relating them to corresponding patterns of thinking. He differentiates rhetorical variants through detailed studies of the Zhuangzi’s Inner chapters, the Laozi, the Analects, and the Huainanzi. The philosophical depth and relevance of the Chinese ancient worldview appear in a fresh light when one unearths the patterns into which its content is embedded. The focus on textual patterns and rhetorical arrangements also facilitates the reading of Chinese classics alongside other traditions. The book will be a valuable reference for scholars and graduate students studying Chinese literary criticism, Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy.
《清華大學藏戰國竹簡》研究與英譯2《尚書》諸篇
2008年7月，清華大學從境外搶救入藏了一批戰國時期竹簡，學界稱之為“清華簡”。清華簡的內容多為早期的經史類典籍，其中除了可與《尚書》等傳世古書對照的篇目外，更多的則是已失傳兩千年之久的前所未見的佚篇，對於準確認識先秦古籍的原貌、重建中國早期歷史均有重要學術價值。清華簡所帶來的新知識以及對傳統文化認識的更新，已經引起了海內外學術界以及社會各界的廣泛關注，對中華優秀傳統文化的傳承與創新性發展具有重要的意義。 本書的主要內容是對清華簡中見於《尚書》 或與之體裁相近篇目（《傅敓之命》《周武王有疾周公所自以代王之志》《攝命》《厚父》）的英譯及背景知識介紹，同時對戰國時期歷史敍事的文學特徵提供了一些見解。主要讀者為海內外從事早期中國研究的學者以及對中國古代文明有興趣的一般讀者。
Literary Forms of Argument in Early China
Literary Forms of Argument in Early China explores formal approaches to the study of philosophical texts to present new methods for the analysis of pre-modern thought in China. Attempts made by Chinese thinkers to generate literary forms of philosophical reasoning have gone unrecognised within scholarship in China and the West. Drawing together the expertise of leading scholars of early Chinese textuality, this volume addresses this omission by examining the formal characteristics of an argument, the interrelationship between form and content, as well as patterned compositions and non-linear semantic utterances. With these comprehensive new readings, the volume makes a landmark contribution to the study of written thinking in early China. Contributors include: Wim De Reu, Joachim Gentz, Christoph Harbsmeier, Martin Kern, Dirk Meyer, Michael Nylan, Andrew H. Plaks, David Schaberg, Rudolf G. Wagner.
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