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Perceptions of antiquity in Chinese civilization / edited by Dieter Kuhn & Helga Stahl.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Würzburger sinologische Schriften 0938-6416
- Würzburger sinologische Schriften, 0938-6416
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antiquities.
- Historiography.
- History.
- Philosophy.
- China--History--Philosophy--Congresses.
- China.
- China--Historiography--Congresses.
- Historiography--China--Congresses.
- China--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 401 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Heidelberg : Edition Forum, 2008.
- Contents:
- Reflections on the concept of antiquity in Chinese civilization
- The present perception of the origin of Chinese civilization
- The formation of the concept of antiquity in early China
- Transmitting antiquity: the origin and paradigmization of the "five ranks"
- Archaeological perspectives on the philosophicization of royal Zhou ritual
- The belatedness of the present: debates over antiquity during the Han Dynasty
- Antiquity in the shape of a canon: views on antiquity from the outlook of mathematics
- When antiquity matters: thinking about and with antiquity in the Tang-Song transition
- The concept of ritual in the thought of Sima Guang (1019-1086)
- Skepticist reconstruction and sagely truth in tension: Song attempts to draw the boundaries of historical antiquity
- "Old models," court culture and antiquity between 1070 and 1125 in Northern Song China
- The creation and transformation of ancient rulership in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) - a look at the Dijian tushuo (illustrated arguments in the mirror of the emperors)
- Da Yu, a modern hero? Myth and mythology in the People's Republic of China.
- Notes:
- International conference proceedings, May 2004, University of Würzburg.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9783927943292
- 3927943290
- OCLC:
- 232569736
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