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The dynamics of masters literature : early Chinese thought from Confucius to Han Feizi
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- Creator
- Wiebke Denecke
- Format
- Books
- Languages
- English, Chinese
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2010
- Physical Details
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- viii, 370 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0674056094, 9780674056091, 9781684170586, 1684170583
- OCLC
- ocn956711872, ocn555658613
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-364) and index.
- Introduction: Chinese philosophy and the translation of disciplines -- The faces of masters literature until the Eastern Han -- Scenes of instruction and master bodies in the Analects -- From scenes of instruction to scenes of construction: Mozi -- Interiority, human nature, and exegesis in Mencius -- Authorship, human nature, and persuasion in Xunzi -- The race for precedence: polemics and the vacuum of traditions in Laozi -- Zhuangzi and the art of negation -- The self-regulating state, paranoia, and rhetoric in Han Feizi -- Epilogue: a future for masters literature and Chinese philosophy