Guodian : the newly discovered seeds of Chinese religious and political philosophy / Kenneth W. Holloway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holloway, Kenneth W., 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Chinese--China--Jingmen Shi.

Manuscripts, Chinese.

Philosophy and religion--China.

Philosophy and religion.

Philosophy, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 300 BCE, the tutor of the heir-apparent to the Chu throne was laid to rest in a tomb at Jingmen, Hubei province in central China. A corpus of bamboo-strip texts that recorded the philosophical teachings of an era was buried with him. The tomb was sealed, and China quickly became the theater of the Qin conquest, an event that proved to be one of the most significant in ancient history. For over two millennia, the texts were forgotten. But in October 1993, they were unearthed. The discovery of the Guodian texts, together with other recently discovered Warring States manuscripts, has revolut

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; ONE: Religious Characteristics of Guodian Texts; TWO: Guodian and Traditional Views of China; THREE: Rhetoric as Self-Cultivation: A Question of Language; FOUR: Attaining Unity in Guodian Texts; FIVE: Harmonizing Aristocracy and Meritocracy; Appendix: Guodian Version of "The Five Aspects of Conduct"; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-191) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-988815-9

9786611930974

1-281-93097-0

0-19-970768-5

OCLC:

476242110