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Order in early Chinese excavated texts : natural, supernatural, and legal approaches
- Title
- Order in early Chinese excavated texts : natural, supernatural, and legal approaches / Zhongjiang Wang ; translated by Misha Tadd.
- Author
- Wang, Zhongjiang
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- 241 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Recently discovered ancient silk and bamboo manuscripts have transformed our understanding of classical Chinese thought. In this book, Wang Zhongjiang closely examines these texts, and by parsing the complex divergence between ancient and modern Chinese records reveals early Chinese philosophy to be much richer and more complex than we ever imagined. As numerous and varied cosmologies sprang up in this cradle of civilization, beliefs in the predictable movements of nature merged with faith in gods and their divine punishments. Slowly, powerful spirits and gods were stripped of their potency as nature's constant order awakened people to the possibility of universal laws, and from those laws was finally born an ideally conceived community, objectively managed, and rationally ordered"--
- Uniform Title
- Yu zhou, zhi xu, xin yang. English
- Alternative Title
- Yu zhou, zhi xu, xin yang.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Chinese.
- Contents
- Prolegomenon -- The cosmology of The great one birthed water -- Cosmology, nature, and the sage in All things are forms in flux -- The diversity of Eastern Zhou views on deities and The divine influence of spirits and gods -- Natural order and divine will in The three virtues -- Huang-Lao's conception of universal law: Why govern with the way and law? -- Appendix 1: The great one birthed water -- Appendix 2: All things are forms in flux -- Appendix 3: The divine insight of spirit and gods -- Appendix 4: The three virtues.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-943
- ISBN
- 9781137546968
- 1137546964
- 9781137540829 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781137540843 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015021286
- OCLC
- 935897465
- Author
- Wang, Zhongjiang, author.
- Title
- Order in early Chinese excavated texts : natural, supernatural, and legal approaches / Zhongjiang Wang ; translated by Misha Tadd.
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index.
- Language
- Translated from the Chinese.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-943