Classical Chinese : supplementary selections from philosophical texts : glossaries, analyses / Naiying Yuan, Haitao Tang, James Geiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yuan, Naiying.

Contributor:

Geiss, James.

Mencius.

Tang, Hai-tao.

Laozi.

Zhuangzi.

Princeton University. Chinese Linguistics Project.

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Confucius. Lun yu--Selections.

Confucius.

Mencius.

Laozi.

Zhuangzi.

Chinese language--Readers.

Chinese language.

Philosophy, Chinese--Readers.

Philosophy, Chinese.

Genre:

Readers (Publications)

Physical Description:

xviii, 309 pages ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2006]

Language Note:

Text in Chinese and English.

Summary:

Classical Chinese: Supplementary Selections from Philosophical Texts continues the rigorous standard set forth in the main, three-volume Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader. Organized into four sections, this supplementary volume sets forth the key concepts and writings of Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, and Zhuangzi-providing key insight into their beliefs and literary styles. The beauty of these original texts and the insightful annotations that accompany them will provide students of Chinese with a glimpse into the fountainhead of China's intellectual tradition.

The main text and its four supplementary volumes together represent the most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on the language, literature, philosophy, history, and religion of premodern China. Rigorously and extensively field-tested and fine-tuned for years in classroom settings by three members of the Chinese Linguistics Project at Princeton University, it sets a new standard for the field. With Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader and its supplementary volumes, Naiying Yuan, Haitao Tang, and James Geiss provide the definitive new resource for students and instructors of classical Chinese language and culture, one whose impact will be lasting.

Contents:

Selections from the Confucian Analects

1.1 To Learn and to Review on a Timely Basis That Which One Has Leaned 1

1.2 Filial Piety and Brotherly Love Are the Basis of Benevolence 3

1.3 Artful Words and Insinuating Manners 6

1.4 Self-Examine Three Points 7

1.6 When a Man's Energy Exceeds What Needed to Fulfill His Duty, Let Him Study the Polite Arts 8

1.7 Revere That Which Is Worthy and Ignore Beauty 9

1.8 A Frivolous Gentleman Loses the Respect of His Inferiors 11

1.14 Never Eat Until Sated 12

1.15 To Be Poor yet Remain Cheerful; Rich yet Abide by Rites 13

1.16 Concern About not Knowing Others 16

2.1 To Rule by Moral Force 16

2.3 Guide People with Moral Force 17

2.4 At Fifteen I Set My Heart upon Learning 18

2.8 Zi Xia Asks About Filial Piety 20

2.9 Yan Hui Is By No Means Stupid 21

2.11 Review the Old to Gain New Knowledge 23

2.15 To Learn and to Think 23

2.19 What Can I Do to Get the Support of the Common People? 24

3.4 Lin Fang Asks About the Roots of Ritual 25

4.8 To Hear the Way in the Morning is to Die Content.in the Evening 26

4.9 A Scholar Whose Heart is Set on the Way... 27

4.14 Do not Worry About not Having a Post 28

4.15 The Master's Way is Simply This: Devotion and Consideration 29

4.17 Upon Seeing a Good Man, Think How to Equal Him 30

5.7 Getting on a Raft and Floating out to Sea 31

5.9 To Hear One and Understand Ten 33

5.10 Zai Yu Sleeps During the Day 34

5.12 This is the Point Where Ci Has not Quite Got to 36

5.15 Not Being Ashamed to Seek Knowledge from His Inferiors 37

5.17 Excels at Dealings with His Fellow Men 38

5.26 Why not Each of You to Tell his Wish 38

5.27 Seeing One's Own Faults and Lodging Charges Against Oneself 40

6.3 Not to Vent His Wrath upon Others; Nor to Commit the Same Fault Twice 41

6.11 Worthy Indeed Was Yan Hui 43

6.18 Ornament and Substance Are Duly Blended 44

6.20 To Know It; to Like It; to Delight in It 45

6.23 Th Intelligent Man Delights in Water; the Benevolent Man Delights in Mountains 46

6.28 The Master Went to See Nanzi 46

6.30 Help Others to Get Established and Prosper 47

7.2 Never Tire of Learning, nor Weary of Teaching Others 49

7.3 These Are What Disquiet Me 50

7.5 I Dreamed of Seeing the Duke of Zhou 51

7.8 To Hold up One Corner and Get Back with the Other Three 53

7.16 Wealth and Rank Are Like Floating Clouds 54

7.19 Be so Immersed in Work as to Forget One's Meals 55

7.22 When Walking in a Party of Three, I can Always be Certain of Learning from Those I Am With 57

7.37 A True Gentleman is Calm and at Ease 58

8.7 The Burden Is Heavy; the Journey, Long 59

9.11 Broaden Me with Culture; Restrain Me with Ritual 60

9.17 Things That Pass Are Just Like This! 63

9.23 The Young Generation Inspires Awe 64

9.28 The Pine and the Cypress Are the Last to Fade 65

9.29 Be Not Perplexed, Worry Not, Fear Not 66

11.3 The Four Classes of the Chief Disciples of Confucius 67

11.10 When Yan Yuan Died the Master Wailed Without Restraint 68

11.12 Ji Lu Asked How One Should Serve Ghosts and Spirits 69

11.15 Having Got as Far as the Guest Hall, but not yet Entered the Inner Rooms 70

11.16 To Go Too Far Is as Bad as not to Go Far Enough 71

11.26 Zi Lu, Zeng Xi, Ran You and Gongxi Hua Were Seated in Attendance upon the Master 73

12.1 Overcome One's Own Desires and Return to Propriety 84

12.4 Neither Worries Nor Fears 87

12.5 All Within the Four Seas Are One's Brothers 88

12.11 Let the Ruler Be a Ruler, the Minister a Minister, the Father a Father and the Son a Son 90

12.19 The Virtue of the Gentleman Is That of the Wind 91

12.24 The Gentleman by His Culture Collects Friends About Him 93

13.4 What Need Has One to Practice Farming? 94

13.9 To Multiply the People, to Enrich Them, to Instruct Them 96

13.16 The Near Approve and the Distant Approach 97

13.17 Haste Makes Waste 98

13.21 Radicals and Ultraconservatives 99

14.28 The Master Describes Himself 100

14.38 Knowing It Is of no Use; Rather Keep Doing It 102

14.43 Yuan Rang Sat Waiting for the Master in a Sprawling Position 103

15.2 A Gentleman Stands Firm Against Hardships 104

15.10 A Craftsman, if He Means to Do Good Work, Must First Sharpen His Tools 105

15.15 To Demand Much from Oneself and Little from Others 107

15.24 You Would not Like Others to Do to You, Do not to Others 108

15.36 When it Comes to Benevolence, Yield not to Anyone 109

17.19 What Does Heaven Speak of? 110

17.25 Only Women and People of Low Birth Are Hard to Deal With 111

18.5 Jie Yu, the Madman of Chu 112

18.6 Confucius Asks Chang Ju and Jie Ni about the Ford 115

19.3 The Disciples Ask about Intercourse with Others 120

19.5 With Each Day Know Something About What One Lacks 123

20.3 Understand Fate, Propriety, and Language 124

Selections from the Book of Mencius

1.1 All That Matters Is That There Should Be Benevolence and Righteousness. What Is the Point of Mentioning the Word 'Profit'? 126

1.3 Let the People Have no Regrets in Supporting Their Parents When Alive and in Mourning Them When Dead. This is the First Step Along the Kingly Way 130

1.4 There Is no Difference Between Killing a Man with Misrule and Killing Him with a Knife 139

1.7 He Becomes a True King by Bringing Peace to the People. This Is Something No One Can Stop 142

2.6 The King Turned to His Attendants and Changed the Subject 168

2.8 I Have Indeed Heard of the Punishment of the 'Outcast Zhou', But I Have not Heard of Any Regicide 171

3.6 No Man Is Devoid of a Heart That Is Sensitive to the Suffering of Others 174

6.2 A Great Man 179

7.15 The Pupils of One's Eyes Cannot Conceal One's Wickedness 180

7.17 When the Empire Is Drowning, One Helps It with the Way 182

7.18 People Taught One Another's Children 184

7.23 The Trouble with People ... 187

8.33 A Man in the State of Qi 187

11.2 Human Nature Is Good Just as Water Seeks Low Ground 192

11.8 Hold on to It and It Exists; Let Go of It and It Disappears 194

11.11 The Sole Concern of Learning Is to Go After The Strayed Heart. That Is All 195

13.9 In Obscurity a Man Makes Perfect His Own Person, but in Prominence He Makes Perfect the Whole Empire as Well 197

13.20 A Gentleman Delights in Three Things... 200

14.14 The People Are of Supreme Importance 201

14.35 There Is Nothing Better for the Nurturing of Heart Than to Have Few Desires 204

Selections from Laozi

The Dao That Can Be Told of Is not the Eternal Dao 206

When the People of the World All Know Beauty as Beauty, There Arises the Recognition of Ugliness 208

Not Exalting the Worthies 214

The Five Colors Cause One's Eyes to be Blind 217

The Invisible, the Inaudible, the Intangible 219

He Who Knows Others Is Wise 222

Reversion Is the Action of Dao 224

Knowing to be Content Will Suffer no Disgrace 225

Soften the Light and Become One with the Dusty World 227

I Take no Action and People Transform Naturally 229

To Remain as Careful at the End as One Was at the Beginning 232

Let There Be a Small Country with Few People 235

Selections from Zhuangzi

Yao Wanted to Cede the Empire to Xu You 240

Big But Useless 245

To Divine Dreams in a Dream 251

The Debate of Right and Wrong 255

Zhuang Zhou Dreamt He Was a Butterfly 258

The Use of the Useless 261

Not to Enter the Mind 262

Sit Down and Forget Everything 265

Use the Mind Like a Mirror 269

Hun Dun, the Emperor of the Central Region 270

Duke Huan of Qi was Reading a Book 272

The Hundred Streams Poured into the Yellow River 277

To Transform Naturally 283

Yuan Chu 284

Zhuangzi's Wife Dies 287

An Old Skull 291

Whirling the Hatchet with a Noise Like the Wind 297

Get the Meaning and Forget the Words 301.

Contains:

Confucius. Lun yu. Selections

ISBN:

0691118337

9780691118338

OCLC:

71225679