"Scholarship on early Chinese thought has long tended to treat texts as mere repositories of ideas rather than as meaningful objects in their own right. Not only does this approach present an idealised account of China's intellectual past, but it also imposes artificial boundari…
Af indeholdet: Kung Fu-tses Analects ; Glossary; Disciples of Confucius; Historical personages; Traditional chinese commentators cited; Traditional chinese texts
This book 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 C…
"This complements our The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi (1994). Wang Bi's commentary was the most influential interpretation from the 3rd century to the late twelfth, when it was supplanted by those of Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi, the chi…
This book presents a comprehensive discussion of the ancient Daoist classic Zhuangzi. It contains both a chronological outline of the context of the work, from its compilation to its relevance today, and a systematic discussion of its central concepts. It examines history and id…
