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Sources of Chinese Tradition

From Earliest Times to 1600

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"Sources of Chinese Tradition" was published by Columbia University Press in 2000 - New York, USA, it has 944 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: Sources of Chinese Tradition
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 944
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
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  • Publish Location: New York, USA

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"Sources of Chinese Tradition" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- THE CHINESE TRADITION IN ANTIQUITY
  • 2- The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of the Late Shang Dynasty, by David N. Keightley
  • 3- Classical Sources of Chinese Tradition, by Burton Watson, David S. Nivison, Irene Bloom
  • 4- Confucius and the Analects, by Irene Bloom
  • 5- Mozi: Utilitarianism, Uniformity, and Universal Love, by Burton Watson
  • 6- The Way of Laozi and Zhuangzi
  • 7- The Evolution of the Confucian Tradition in Antiquity
  • 8- Legalists and Militarists
  • 9- THE MAKING OF A CLASSICAL CULTURE
  • 10- The Han Reaction to Qin Despotism
  • 11- Syncretic Visions of State, Society, and Cosmos, by Harold Roth, Sarah Queen, Nathan Sivin
  • 12- The Imperial Order and Han Syntheses
  • 13- The Economic Order, by Burton Watson, Wm. Theodore deBary
  • 14- The Great Han Historians, by Burton Watson
  • 15- Later Daoism and Mahyana Buddhism in China
  • 16- Learning of the Mysterious, by Richard John Lynn, Wing-tsit Chan, Irene Bloom
  • 17- Daoist Religion, by Franciscus Verellen, Nathan Sivin, et al.
  • 18- The Introduction of Buddhism, by Leon Hurvitz, Tsai Heng-ting
  • 19- Schools of Buddhist Doctrine, by Leon Hurvitz, Burton Watson, Daniel Stevenson, George Tanabe, Wing-Tsit Chan
  • 20- Schools of Buddhist Practice, by Leon Hurvitz, Daniel Stevenson, Philip B. Yampolsky, Chun-fang Yu
  • 21- THE CONFUCIAN REVIVAL AND NEO-CONFUCIANISM
  • 22- Social Life and Political Culture in the Tang
  • 23- The Confucian Revival in the Song
  • 24- Neo-Confucianism: The Philosophy of Human Nature and the Way of the Sage
  • 25- Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucian Program, by Wm. Theodore deBary
  • 26- Ideological Foundations of Late Imperial China, by Wm. Theodore deBary, Edward Farmer, John Dardess
  • 27- Neo-Confucian Education, by Wm. Thedore deBary
  • 28- Self and Society in the Ming
  • 29- Glossary
  • 30- Bibliography
  • 31- Pinyin to Wade-Giles Romanization Chart
  • 32- Index

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Any attempt to describe the thought of the most ancient or pre-Confucian period of Chinese history is immediately faced with two difficulties.

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