Hawai'i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture / / ed. by Victor H. Mair, Paul R. Goldin, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt.
The Hawai'i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture is a collection of more than ninety primary sources-all but a few of which were translated specifically for this volume-of cultural significance from the Bronze Age to the turn of the twentieth century. They take into account virtually every asp...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Historical chronology
- Preface
- Terms and Abbreviations
- A Note on the Transcription and Translation of the Titles of Chinese Texts
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction:A Constantly Shifting Mosaic of Peoples and Cultures
- 1.Shang Dynasty Oracle-Bone Inscriptions
- 2. Shang and Zhou Ritual Bronze Inscriptions
- 3. Astronomy in Early Chinese Sources
- 4. Milfoil-Divination
- 5. Heaven's Mandate
- 6.The Odes
- 7.Confucius and the Birth of Chinese Philosophy
- 8.The Challenge of Mo Zi
- 9.Mencius's Defense of Confucianism
- 10. The Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, and Five Forms of Conduct
- 11. The World of the Zuozhuan
- 12. The Tradition of the Daode jing
- 13. Zhuang Zi
- 14. The Paradoxes of Hui Shi and Others
- 15. The Lyrics of Chu and the Aesthetic of Shamanism
- 16. Filial Piety
- 17. The Methods of War of Sun Wu and Sun Bin
- 18. Xun Zi and the Confucian Way
- 19. Early Discussions of Music and Literature
- 20. Vestments of Mourning
- 21. Han Fei Zi and His Antecedents
- 22. Anecdotes from the Warring States
- 23. The Laws of Qin before the Empire
- 24. The Rise and Fall of the Qin Empire
- 25. Huang-Lao
- 26. The Five Phases
- 27. The Xiongnu, Raiders from the Steppe
- 28. Sima Qian, "Account of the Legendary Physician Bian Que"
- 29. Sima Qian, "Letter to Ren An"
- 30. The Rationalism of Wang Chong
- 31. Admonitions for Women
- 32. Zhang Heng, "Western Metropolis Rhapsody"
- 33. Scripture on Great Peace (Taiping jing )
- 34. Cao Pi, "A Discourse on Literature"
- 35. Legends of Confucius
- 36. Medicines from The Divine Husbandman's Canon of Materia Medica
- 37. Huangfu Mi, Preface to and Biographies from Accounts of High-minded Men
- 38. The Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove
- 39. Lu Bao, "On the Money God"
- 40. Xie Lingyun, Preface to Record of Excursions to Famous Mountains
- 41. Fan Ye, Preface to "Accounts of Disengaged Persons"
- 42. Buddhism and Language in Early-Medieval China
- 43. Buddhism and Indigenous Chinese Culture
- 44. Early-Medieval Stories of Filial Piety
- 45. The Elevation of Belles Lettres
- 46. Legends of The Original Vow of the Bodhisattva of the Earth Sanctuary
- 47. Selections from the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
- 48. Sima Guang, "The Battle of Mang Mountain"
- 49. "The Tale of Master Yuan of Mount Lu"
- 50. Tang Poems as Vehicles for Ideas
- 51. Dou Yi, a Mid-Tang Businessman
- 52. Han Yu, "A Memorial on the Relic of the Buddha"
- 53. Han Yu, "The Original Way"
- 54. The First Recorded Cinderella Story
- 55. Late-Tang Foreign Relations: The Uyghur Crisis
- 56. Political and Economic Problems concerning Buddhism
- 57. Guo Xi (attrib.), "Advice on Landscape"
- 58. Su Shi, "Parable of the Sun"
- 59. Zhu Qiqian, "A Song-Dynasty Silk-tapestry Bag with Strap"
- 60. Fang Lüe, "Inscription for the Temple of Auspicious Response"
- 61. The Discovery of Crystallized Sugar
- 62. Recollections of the Northern Song Capital
- 63. Zhang Jiucheng's Explanation of Zhang Zai's "Western Inscription"
- 64. Zhu Xi, Introduction to the Redacted Centrality and Commonality
- 65. Dragons, Tigers, and Elixirs: Alchemy in Medieval China
- 66. The Autobiographical Sermon of Zuqin
- 67. Vernacular Paraphrases of the Classics for the Mongol Rulers
- 68. Yuan-period Medical Cases
- 69. Ni Zan, Cloud Forest Hall Collection of Rules for Drinking and Eating
- 70. Tang Shi, "Lament for a Song Girl," Four Stanzas
- 71. Wang Yangming, "Inquiry on the Great Learning "
- 72. In Praise of Martyrs: Widow-Suicide in Late-Imperial China
- 73. Lu Xixing (attrib.), Romance of the Investiture of the Gods
- 74. Imperial Preface to the Revised Edition of the Collected Statutes of the Ming
- 75. Schools and Civil Service in the Ming Dynasty
- 76. Accounts of Bengal in Extensive Records on Four Foreign Lands
- 77. Chen Zongyou, Exposition of the Original Shaolin Staff Method
- 78. Li Yu, "A Handful of Snow"
- 79. Shen Cheng, "A Requiem for My Daughter Zhen"
- 80. Zhang Maozi, A Record of Life beyond My Due
- 81. Feng Menglong, Preface to the Mountain Songs
- 82. Fang Yizhi, Introduction to Notes on the Principle of Things
- 83. Gu Yanwu, Preface to Five Treatises on Phonology
- 84. Yu Yonghe, Small Sea Travelogue (Excerpts)
- 85. Miao Albums
- 86. Yuan Mei, Champion of Individual Taste
- 87. Gesar of Ling
- 88. To Hell and Back: A Nineteenth-century Fable
- 89. Biographies of Exemplary Women
- 90. Kang Youwei, "An Investigation into the Reforms of Confucius"
- 91. Lu Xun, An Outsider's Chats about Written Language
- 92. Xu Bing, "The Living Word"
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Photographic Credits
- Index