Guanzi : : Political, Economic, and Philosophical Essays from Early China / / ed. by W. Allyn Rickett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• HerausgeberIn: Rickett, W. Allyn,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Library of Asian Translations ; 159
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (592 p.) :; 1 b/w illus. 1 table

Named for the famous Chinese minister of state, Guan Zhong (d. 645 B.C.), the Guanzi is one of the largest collections of ancient Chinese writings still in existence. With this volume, W. Allyn Rickett completes the first full translation of the Guanzi into English. This represents a truly monumental effort, as the Guanzi is a long and notoriously difficult work. It was compiled in its present form about 26 B.C. by the Han dynasty scholar Liu Xiang and the surviving text consists of some seventy-six anonymous essays dating from the fifth century B.C. to the first century B.C.The forty-two chapters contained in this volume include several which present Daoist theories concerning self-cultivation and the relationship between the body and mind as well as the development of Huang-Lao political and economic thought. The "Dizi zhi" chapter provides one of the oldest discussions of education in China. The "Shui di" chapter refers to the circulation of blood some two thousand years before the discoveries of William Harvey in the West. Other chapters deal with various aspects of statecraft, Yin-Yang and Five Phases thought, folk beliefs, seasonal calendars, and farming. Perhaps the best-known chapters are those that deal with various methods of controlling and stimulating the economy. They constitute one of the world's earliest presentations of a quantity theory of money. Throughout the text, Rickett provides extensive notes. He also supplies an introduction to the volume and a comprehensive index.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- GUANZI -- Nei Ye 内 INNER WORKINGS, AND INTRODUCTION TO THE FOUR "XIN SHU" CHAPTERS -- Xin Shu Xia 心树下 ART OF THE MIND, PART II -- Xin Shu Shang 心树上 ART OF THE MIND, PART I -- Bai 白心 Xin PURIFYING THE MIND -- Shui Di 水地 WATER AND EARTH -- Si Shi 四时 THE FOUR SEASONS -- Wu Xing 五行 FIVE PHASES -- Shi 势 ON PAYING ATTENTION TO CIRCUMSTANCES -- Zheng 正 RECTIFICATION -- Jiu Bian 九變 THE NINE ALTERNATIVES -- Ren Fa 任法 RELIANCE ON LAW -- Ming Fa 明法 ON MAKING THE LAW CLEAR AND EXPLANATION OF THE "MING FA" -- Zheng Shi 正世 RECTIFYING THE AGE -- Zhi Guo 治国 MAINTAINING THE STATE IN GOOD ORDER -- Feng Shan THE FENG AND SHAN SACRIFICES -- Xiao Wen 小聞 Minor Queries -- Qi Chen Qi Zhu 七臣七主 SEVEN MINISTERS AND SEVEN RULERS -- Jin Cang 禁敞 ON MAINTAINING RESTRAINT -- Ru Guo 入聝 Al ON ENTERING THE CAPITAL -- Jiu Shou 几守 NINE THINGS TO BE PRESERVED -- Huan Gong Wen 桓公聞 QUERIES OF DUKE HUAN -- Du Di 度地 On Appraising the Terrain -- Di Yuan 地肙 CATEGORIES OF LAND -- Dizi Zhi DUTIES OF THE STUDENT -- Chi Mi 侈靡 ON EXTRAVAGANCE IN SPENDING -- Chen Cheng Ma 臣乘馬 INTRODUCTION TO THE QING ZHONG 輕重 SECTION -- Cheng Ma Shu 乘馬数 THE ART OF FISCAL MANAGEMENT -- Shi Yu 事語 DISCOURSE ON ECONOMIC MATTERS -- Hai Wang 海王 KINGSHIP BASED ON THE SEA -- Guo Xu 膕蓄 THE STATE'S STORE OF GRAIN -- Shan Guo Gui 山聝軌 USING STATISTICS TO CONTROL STATE FINANCES -- Shan Quan Shu 山顴数 METHODS FOR COPING WITH CHANGE -- ShanZhi Shu 山侄数 THE BEST METHODS FOR INSURING FISCAL CONTROL -- Di Shu 地数 Methods for Exploiting the Earth -- Kui Du 揆度 CALCULATIONS AND MEASURES -- Guo Zhun 聝准 MAINTAINING STABILITY IN STATE FINANCES -- Qing Zhong Jia 輕種 QING ZHONG ECONOMIC POLICIES, PART A -- Qing Zhong Yi 輕種乙 QING ZHONG ECONOMIC POLICIES, PART B -- Qing Zhong Ding 輕種丁 QING ZHONG ECONOMIC POLICIES, PART D -- Qing Zhong Wu 輕種戊 QING ZHONG ECONOMIC POLICIES, PART E -- Qing Zhong Ji 輕種己 QING ZHONG ECONOMIC POLICIES, PART F -- Appendix. End-Rhymes for Rhymed Passages in Guanzi Volume One -- Bibliography -- Index