Love, Hatred, and Other Passions : : Questions and Themes on Emotions in Chinese Civilization / / edited by Paolo Santangelo, Donatella Guida.

• TeilnehmendeR: Guida, Donatella,; Santangelo, Paolo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume aims at starting a debate on functions, role and relevance of states of mind in Chinese History and civilization. It focuses on an anthropological aspect of human experience, the affective world, as it is represented and evaluated in the various sources. A number of well-known specialists, ranging from the philosophical basic concepts to some fundamental questions about terminology, analyze literary, historical and judicial materials: this collection of essays presents different opinions, experiences and perspectives on the understanding of emotional and mental states in Chinese civilization, as well as about the difficulties met on the topic. A fascinating and useful reading for all those who are interested in humanities and in the history of mentality.

Table of Contents

""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PART ONE: SOME PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS""; ""EMOTION, LANGUAGE AND LITERARY TEXTS""; ""WHY ARE THERE TWO �JOY-LIKE� �BASIC� EMOTIONS IN CHINESE? SEMANTIC THEORY AND EMPIRICAL FINDINGS""; ""WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL �MELANCHOLIC� IN IMPERIAL CHINA?""; ""MAKING SENSE OF SIGNS: EMOTIONS IN CHINESE MEDICAL TEXTS""; ""PART TWO: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS""; ""XIN - AS THE SEAT OF THE EMOTIONS IN CONFUCIAN SELF-CULTIVATION""; ""BASIC EMOTION TERMS IN WARRING STATES TEXTS: SEQUENCES AND PATTERNS""

""THE MEANING OF QING - IN TEXTS FROM GUODIAN - - TOMB NO. 1""""EMOTION, KNOWLEDGE, AND THE RECONFIGURED SELF IN THE TANG-SONG TRANSITION""; ""THE PRODUCTION OF SPECIAL MENTAL STATES WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF SEXUAL BODY TECHNIQUES � AS SEEN IN THE MAWANGDUI MEDICAL CORPUS""; ""PART THREE: EMOTIONAL VOCABULARY AND LITERATURE""; ""FOLLY (CHI- ) IN THE LIAOZHAI ZHIYI - - - -""; ""THE REMARKABLE WOMAN IN PU SONGLING�S LIAOZHAI ZHIYI. A THEORIZATION OF QING""; ""ELAPSE OF TIME AND SEASONS IN DONGJIEYUAN XIXIANGJI""

""EMOTION (QING- ) AND ITS EXPRESSIONS IN TRADITIONAL CHINESE NARRATIVE AND CHINESE LYRICS""""LIANGYOU HUABAO: HOW TO APPEAL READERSHIP. STRATEGIES OF FRIENDLINESS IN A SHANGHAI JOURNAL OF THE THIRTIES""; ""PART FOUR: SOME REPRESENTATIONS OF LOVE AND OTHER POSITIVE POSTURES""; ""PASSION AND PERSONHOOD IN YINGYING ZHUAN - - - ,XIXIANG JI - - - , AND JIAO HONG JI - - -""; ""SONS AND MOTHERS: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF FILIAL PIETY IN LATE-IMPERIAL CHINA""; ""AI - VERSUS XIAO- : THE EXPRESSION OF LOVE IN THENOVEL JINGHUA YUAN - - - . A PRELIMINARY APPROACH*""

""MISS EMOTION: WOMEN, BOOKS AND CULTURE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURYJIANGNAN""""SOME REMARKS ON DEVIANT LOVE AND VIOLENCE IN THREE MODERN CHINESE DECADENT PLAYS""; ""PART FIVE: ANGER AND HATRED, AND AGGRESSIVE-REPULSIVE ATTITUDES""; ""BETWEEN IDEOLOGY AND RATIONALITY: RAGE UNDER THE HAN""; ""THE AVENGER�S COLDNESS: ON THE EMOTIONAL CONDITION OF REVENGE AS REPRESENTED IN PRE-MODERN CHINESE FICTIONAL NARRATIVE""; ""IS ANGER A COMPONENT OF DESPOTISM? DISCUSSION ON ZHU YUANZHANG�S WRATH""

""THE LANGUAGE OF ANGER AND SHAME IN JURIDICAL SOURCES: FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS ON WOMEN SUICIDES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CHINA""""SOME CONCLUSIVE REMARKS ON THE EXAMINATION OF DIFFERENT SOURCES: THE ANALYSIS OF NON-LITERARY DOCUMENTS (MORALISTIC AND JUDICIAL MATERIALS)""