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The ambivalence of creation : debates concerning innovation and artifice in early China
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ISBN: 0804736235 Year: 2001 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.): Stanford university press

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As early as the Warring States period in China (fourth through third centuries BC), debates arose concerning how and under what circumstances new institutions could be formed and legitimated. But the debates quickly encompassed more than just legitimation. Larger issues came to the fore: Can a sage innovate? If so, under what conditions? Where did human culture originally come from? This book studies these debates from the Warring States period to the early Han (second century BC), analyzing the texts in detail and tracing the historical consequences of the various positions that emerged. It also examines the time's conflicting narratives about the origin of the state and how these narratives and ideas were manipulated for ideological purposes during the formation of the first empires. While tracing debates over the question of innovation in early China, the author engages such questions as the prevailing notions concerning artifice and creation.

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S12/0222 --- S12/0224 --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Chinese philosophy: Ancient --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Chinese philosophy: Han --- China --- Civilization --- -History. --- History. --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- Civilization.

To Become a God : Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China
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ISBN: 9781684170418 9780674016439 Year: 2004 Publisher: Boston : Leiden; Boston : Harvard University Asia Center BRILL

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De weg : wat Chinese filosofen ons over het goede leven leren
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ISBN: 9789025904159 Year: 2016 Publisher: Utrecht Ten Have

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De weg biedt een geheel nieuwe kijk op het dagelijks leven. Michael Puett, Harvards populairste docent, laat zien hoe Chinese denkers ons inspireren tot grote en kleine veranderingen. In De weg put hij hiervoor uit het werk van zes grote Chinese filosofen zoals Confucius en Lao Tze. Mede door de waarde die zij aan kleine gebaren, rituelen en goede gewoontes hechten, bieden zij een totaal ander wereldbeeld dan westerse denkers of boeddhistische leraren. De weg daagt ons uit onze diepgewortelde overtuigingen te herzien. Volgens Puett betekent ?het goede leven? niet een groots programma of doel uitvoeren, maar een weg bewandelen. Aan de hand van voorbeelden uit het alledaagse leven, legt Puett de denkbeelden van de oude Chinese filosofen uit. Hij inspireert tot kleine, haalbare veranderingen in onze manier van werken, opvoeden, politiek bedrijven en relaties aangaan, met mogelijk verstrekkende gevolgen voor onszelf en de wereld.


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Huainanzi and textual production in early China
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ISBN: 9004265325 9789004265325 1306689023 9781306689021 9789004265035 9004265031 Year: 2014 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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The Han dynasty Huainanzi is a compendium of knowledge covering every subject from self-cultivation, astronomy, and calendrics, to the arts of government. This edited volume follows a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how and why the Huainanzi was produced and how we should interpret the work. The volume should be of interest to scholars of early China, as well as scholars of textual production in other periods of Chinese history and in other cultures. With contributions by Anne Behnke Kinney, Martin Kern, John S. Major, Andrew Meyer, Judson B. Murray, Michael Nylan, David W. Pankenier, Michael Puett, Sarah A. Queen, Harold D. Roth, and Griet Vankeerberghen.


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The path : what Chinese philosophers can teach us about the good life
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ISBN: 9781476777832 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York Simon & Schuster

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After Wisdom
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ISBN: 9004529012 Publisher: BRILL

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"The nine essays in this volume, written by an international interdisciplinary group of younger scholars, explore comparative dimensions of ancient Chinese and Greek literature. They illuminate the development and interrelations of two modes of thought - mythos and logos, or myth and reason - characteristic of certain ancient cultures, including these two, during the second half of the first millennium BCE. They interrogate the meaning and validity of these concepts and of the category of "wisdom literature," demonstrating that they must be understood critically and that their interrelations are extraordinarily complex and productive. In particular, they explore modes of the rationalizing appropriation of mythic discourses - commentary, edition, philosophy, history - which deconstruct their traditional authority but also secure their survival and continuing significance. Contributors Tomás Bartoletti, Gaston J. Basile, Thomas Crone, Andrew Hui, Fabio Pagani, Luke Parker, Leihua Weng, Kenneth W. Yu and Jingyi Jenny Zhao"--

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Why we play : an anthropological study
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ISBN: 9780986132568 098613256X 1912808234 Year: 2016 Publisher: Chicago : HAU Books,

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Whether it's childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity's seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined environment or construct. But as Roberte Hamayon shows in this book, play has implications that go even further than that. Exploring play's many dimensions, she offers an insightful look at why play has become so ubiquitous across human cultures. Hamayon explores facets of play such as learning, interaction, emotion, strategy, luck, and belief, and she emphasizes the crucial ambiguity between fiction and reality that is at the heart of play as a phenomenon. Revealing how consistent and coherent play is, she ultimately shows it as a unique modality of action that serves an invaluable role in the human experience.


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The path : what Chinese philosophers can teach us about the good life
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ISBN: 9781476777849 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks,

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For the first time an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how these ancient ideas can guide you on the path to a good life today.

To become a god : cosmology, sacrifice, and self-divinization in Early China
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ISBN: 0674016432 Year: 2004

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