Research Catalog

Title

The Huainanzi and textual production in early China / edited by Sarah A. Queen and Michael Puett.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

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Additional Authors

• Queen, Sarah A. (Sarah Ann)
• Puett, Michael, 1964-

Description

xvii, 396 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm

Summary

"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."--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Studies in the history of Chinese texts, 1877-9425 ; volume 5

Uniform Title

Studies in the history of Chinese texts ; v. 5.

Alternative Title

Huainan zi and textual production in early China

Subject

• Huainanzi > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Huainanzi > Criticism, Textual
• Huainanzi > Influence
• Learning and scholarship > China > History > To 1500
• Chinese literature > 221 B.C.-960 A.D. > History and criticism
• Chinese literature > Authorship
• Philosophy, Chinese > History
• China > Intellectual life > 221 B.C.-960 A.D

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-391) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Sarah A. Queen and Michael Puett -- Part One. Authorship and textual formation -- Root-branches structuralism in the Huainanzi / Andrew Meyer -- Daoist inner cultivation thought and the textual structure of the Huainanzi / Harold D. Roth -- Representations of Confucius in the Huainanzi / Sarah A. Queen -- Creating a book and performing it : the "Yao Lue" chapter of the Huainanzi as a Western Han Fu / Martin Kern -- Part Two. Knowledge and rhetoric -- Tool metaphors in the Huainanzi and other early texts / John S. Major -- The Huainanzi's "Heavenly Patterns" and the Shiji's "Treatise on the celestial offices" : what's the difference? / David W. Pankenier -- A note on logical connectives in the Huainanzi / Michael Nylan -- Part Three. Audience and reception -- Sages, creation, and the end of history in the Huainanzi / Michael Puett -- The Liu clan's "Flesh and Bone" : the foundation of Liu An's vision of empire / Judson B. Murray -- The discourse about lords (zhuhou) in the Huainanzi / Griet Vankeerberghen -- Breaking through Heaven's glass ceiling : the significance of the commoner woman of Qi in the "Lan Ming" chapter of the Huananzi / Anne Behnke Kinney.

Call Number

JFE 16-2587

ISBN

• 9789004265035
• 9004265031
• 9004265325
• 9789004265325
• 9789004265325 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2013044938
• 40023905326

OCLC

863632711

Title

The Huainanzi and textual production in early China / edited by Sarah A. Queen and Michael Puett.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in the history of Chinese texts, 1877-9425 ; volume 5

Studies in the history of Chinese texts ; v. 5.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-391) and index.

Connect to:

BrillOnline

Table of contents

Added Author

Queen, Sarah A. (Sarah Ann)

Puett, Michael, 1964-

Other Standard Identifier

40023905326

Research Call Number

JFE 16-2587