Hawaii Reader In Traditional Chinese Culture

, by Mair, Victor H.; Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman; Goldin, Paul Rakita

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ISBN: 9780824827854 | 0824827856
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Copyright: 3/28/2004

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The Hawai'i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture is a collection of more than ninety primary sources-all but a few of which were translated specifically for this volume-of cultural significance from the Bronze Age to the turn of the twentieth century.

Shang Dynasty oracle-bone inscriptions	p. 8
Shang and Zhou ritual bronze inscriptions	p. 13
Astronomy in early Chinese sources	p. 18
Milfoil-divination	p. 28
Heaven's mandate	p. 32
The Odes	p. 35
Confucius and the birth of Chinese philosophy	p. 45
The challenge of Mo Zi	p. 51
Mencius's defense of Confucianism	p. 56
The Great learning, Doctrine of the mean, and Five forms of conduct	p. 63
The world of the Zuozhuan	p. 72
The tradition of the Daode jing	p. 78
Zhuang Zi	p. 87
The paradoxes of Hui Shi and others	p. 96
The Lyrics of Chu and the aesthetic of shamanism	p. 99
Filial piety	p. 106
The Methods of war of Sun Wu and Sun Bin	p. 113
Xun Zi and the Confucian way	p. 121
Early discussions of music and literature	p. 130
Vestments of mourning	p. 134
Han Fei Zi and his antecedents	p. 137
Anecdotes from the warring states	p. 143
The laws of Qin before the empire	p. 147
The rise and fall of the Qin empire	p. 151
Huang-Lao	p. 161
The five phases	p. 164
The Xiongnu, raiders from the steppe	p. 169
Sima Qian, "account of the legendary physician Bian Que"	p. 174
Sima Qian, "letter to Ren An"	p. 179
The rationalism of Wang Chong	p. 183
Admonitions for women	p. 186
Zhang Heng, "western metropolis rhapsody"	p. 190
Scripture on great peace (Taiping jing)	p. 225
Cao Pi, "A discourse on literature"	p. 231
Legends of Confucius	p. 234
Medicines from The divine husbandman's canon of materia medica	p. 239
Huangfu Mi, preface to and biographies from Accounts of high-minded men	p. 242
The seven worthies of the bamboo grove	p. 251
Lu Bao, "On the money god"	p. 256
Xie Lingyun, preface to Record of excursions to famous mountains	p. 260
Fan Ye, preface to "Accounts of disengaged persons"	p. 262
Buddhism and language in early-medieval China	p. 265
Buddhism and indigenous Chinese culture	p. 270
Early-medieval stories of filial piety	p. 278
The elevation of belles letters	p. 282
Legends of The original vow of the Bodhisattva of the earth sanctuary	p. 288
Selections from the Platform sutra of the sixth patriarch	p. 295
Sima Guang, "The battle of Mang mountain"	p. 300
"The tale of Master Yuan of Mount Lu"	p. 304
Tang poems as vehicles for ideas	p. 340
Dou Yi, a mid-Tang businessman	p. 349
Hah Yu, "A memorial on the relic of the Buddha"	p. 355
Han Yu, "The original way"	p. 359
The first recorded Cinderella story	p. 363
Late-Tang foreign relations : the Uyghur Crisis	p. 368
Political and economic problems concerning Buddhism	p. 377
Guo Xi (attrib), "Advice on landscape"	p. 380
Su Shi, "Parable of the sun"	p. 388
Zhu Qiqian, "A song dynasty silk-tapestry bag with strap"	p. 390
Fang Lue, "Inscription for the temple of auspicious response"	p. 392
The discovery of crystallized sugar	p. 399
Recollections of the northern Song capital	p. 405
Zhang Jiucheng's explanation of Zhang Zai's "Western inscription"	p. 423
Zhu Xi, introduction to the Redacted centrality and commonality	p. 426
Dragons, tigers, and elixirs : alchemy in medieval China	p. 429
The autobiographical sermon of Zuqin	p. 433
Vernacular paraphrases of the classics for the Mongol rulers	p. 437
Yuan-period medical cases	p. 440
Ni Zan, Cloud forest hall collection of rules for drinking and eating	p. 444
Tang Shi, "Lament for a Song girl," four stanzas	p. 456
Wang Yangming, "Inquiry on the great learning"	p. 458
In praise of martyrs : widow-suicide in late-imperial China	p. 461
Lu Xixing (attrib.), Romance of the investiture of the gods	p. 467
Imperial preface to the Revised edition of the collected statutes of the Ming	p. 490
Schools and civil service in the Ming Dynasty	p. 494
Accounts of Bengal in Extensive records on four foreign lands	p. 505
Chen Zongyou, Exposition of the original Shaolin staff method	p. 514
Li Yu, "A handful of snow"	p. 517
Shen Cheng, "A requiem for my daughter Zhen"	p. 525
Zhang Maozi, A record of life beyond my due	p. 528
Feng Menglong, preface to the Mountain Songs	p. 539
Fang Yizhi, introduction to Notes on the principle of things	p. 543
Gu Yanwu, preface to Five treatises on phonology	p. 545
Yu Yonghe, Small sea travelogue (excerpts)	p. 548
Miao albums	p. 563
Yuan Mei, champion of individual taste	p. 567
Gesar of Ling	p. 574
To hell and back : a nineteenth-century fable	p. 603
Biographies of exemplary women	p. 607
Kang Youwei, "An investigation into the reforms of Confucius"	p. 614
Lu Xun, An outsider's chats about written language	p. 617
Xu Bing, "The living word"	p. 642
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