Chinese History and Culture : : Sixth Century B.C.E. to Seventeenth Century, Volume 1 / / Ying-shih Yü; ed. by Michael Duke, Josephine Chiu-Duke.

The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking read...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Masters of Chinese Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Author's preface
  • Editorial Note
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Chronology of Dynasties
  • 1. Between the Heavenly and the Human
  • 2. Life and Immortality in the Mind of Han China
  • 3. "O Soul, Come Back!": A Study in the Changing Conceptions of the Soul and Afterlife in Pre-Buddhist China
  • 4. New Evidence on the Early Chinese Conception of Afterlife
  • 5. Food in Chinese Culture
  • 6. The Seating Order at the Hong Men Banquet
  • 7. Individualism and the Neo-Daoist Movement in Wei-Jin China
  • 8. Intellectual Breakthroughs in the Tang- Song Transition
  • 9. Morality and Knowledge in Zhu Xi 's Philosophical System
  • 10. Confucian Ethics and Capitalism
  • 11. Business Culture and Chinese Traditions: Toward a Study of the Evolution of Merchant Culture in Chinese History
  • 12. Reorientation of Confucian Social Thought in the Age of Wang Yangming
  • 13. The Intellectual World of Jiao Hong Revisited
  • 14. Toward an Interpretation of the Intellectual Transition in Seventeenth- Century China
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix
  • Index