The Huainanzi and textual production in early China / / edited by Sarah A. Queen and Michael Puett.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Chinese Texts, Volume 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Queen, Sarah A.,; Puett, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Chinese texts ; Volume 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (414 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The Han dynasty Huainanzi is a compendium of knowledge covering every subject from self-cultivation, astronomy, and calendrics, to the arts of government. This edited volume follows a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how and why the Huainanzi was produced and how we should interpret the work....

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction / Sarah A. Queen and Michael Puett
• 1 Root-Branches Structuralism in the Huainanzi / Andrew Meyer
• 2 Daoist Inner Cultivation Thought and the Textual Structure of the Huainanzi / Harold D. Roth
• 3 Representations of Confucius in the Huainanzi / Sarah A. Queen
• 4 Creating a Book and Performing It: The “Yao lüe” Chapter of the Huainanzi as a Western Han Fu / Martin Kern
• 5 Tool Metaphors in the Huainanzi and Other Early Texts / John S. Major
• 6 The Huainanzi’s “Heavenly Patterns” and the Shiji’s “Treatise on the Celestial Offices”: What’s the Difference? / David W. Pankenier
• 7 A Note on Logical Connectives in the Huainanzi / Michael Nylan
• 8 Sages, Creation, and the End of History in the Huainanzi / Michael Puett
• 9 The Liu Clan’s ‘Flesh and Bone’: The Foundation of Liu An’s Vision of Empire / Judson B. Murray
• 10 The Discourse about Lords (Zhuhou) in the Huainanzi / Griet Vankeerberghen
• 11 Breaking through Heaven’s Glass Ceiling: The Significance of the Commoner Woman of Qi in the “Lan ming” Chapter of the Huainanzi / Anne Behnke Kinney
• References
• Index of Terms.