Showing posts with label 儒家 Confucianism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 儒家 Confucianism. Show all posts

Sunday, May 26, 2019

Konfucjusz. Analekta: Tłumaczenie i opracowanie (Confucius: The Analects)

Author:
Pejda, Katarzyna

Publisher:
KraNόw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Publication date:
January 2019



Abstract:
A translation of the Analects of Confucius from classical Chinese, including the Chinese text, supplemented with an extensive scholarly analysis presenting the Confucian concept of morality. The publication contains a description of the ancient Chinese world, its society, and the relations ruling within in.

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship

Editors:
Michael Hunter and Martin Kern

Publication date:
October 2018 

Publisher:
Brill


Abstract:

Edited by Michael Hunter and Martin Kern and featuring contributions by preeminent scholars of early China, Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship critically examines the long-standing debates surrounding the history of the Analects, for two millennia considered the most authoritative source of the teachings of Confucius (551–479 BCE). Unlike most previous scholarship, it does not take the traditional view of the Analects’ origins as given. Instead, it explores the validity and the implications of recent revisionist critiques from historical, philosophical, and literary perspectives, and further draws on recently discovered ancient manuscripts and new technological advances in the Digital Humanities. As such, it opens up new ways for productive engagement with the text. 

Table of Contents:

Introduction
 Michael Hunter and Martin Kern

1 A Critical Overview of Some Contemporary Chinese Perspectives on the Composition and Date of Lunyu
 John Makeham

2 The Lunyu as an Accretion Text
 Robert Eno

3 The Lunyu as Western Han Text
 Michael Hunter

4 Confucius and His Disciples in the Lunyu: The Basis for the Traditional View
 Paul R. Goldin

5 The Lunyu, a Homeless Dog in Intellectual History: On the Dating of Discourses on Confucius’s Success and Failure
 Joachim Gentz

6 Confucius’s Sayings Entombed: On Two Han Dynasty Bamboo Lunyu Manuscripts
 Paul van Els

7 Manuscript Formats and Textual Structure in Early China
 Matthias L. Richter

8 Interlocutor Collections, the Lunyu, and Proto-Lunyu Texts
 Mark Csikszentmihalyi

9 Sima Qian’s Kongzi and the Western Han Lunyu
 Esther Klein

10 Kongzi as Author in the Han
 Martin Kern

Friday, April 13, 2018

Critical Readings on Tang China

Editor:
Paul W. Kroll

Publisher:
Brill

Publication Date:
May 2018




Abstract:

The Tang dynasty, lasting from 618 to 907, was the high point of medieval Chinese history, featuring unprecedented achievements in governmental organization, economic and territorial expansion, literature, the arts, and religion. Many Tang practices continued, with various developments, to influence Chinese society for the next thousand years. For these and other reasons the Tang has been a key focus of Western sinologists. This volume presents English-language reprints of fifty-seven critical studies of the Tang, in the three general categories of political history, literature and cultural history, and religion. The articles and book chapters included here are important scholarly benchmarks that will serve as the starting-point for anyone interested in the study of medieval China.

Table of Contents:

Tang Emperors’ Accession Dates and Reign Titles (nianhao 年號)

General Introduction
Paul W. Kroll

History—Political, Intellectual, and Military

1 Wen Ta-ya 溫大雅: The First Recorder of T’ang History
Woodbridge Bingham

2 The Rise to Power of the T’ang Dynasty: A Reassessment
Howard J. Wechsler

3 The T’ang Imperial Family
Denis Twitchett

4 Canonical Scholarship
David McMullen

5 Neo-Confucianism and Neo-Legalism in T’ang Intellectual Life, 755–805
Edwin G. Pulleyblank

6 The Structure of T’ang Selection
P. A. Herbert

7 Decree Examinations in T’ang China
P. A. Herbert

8 The Bureaucratic Apparatus [of T’ang Historians]
Denis Twitchett

9 Bureaucracy and Cosmology: The Ritual Code of T’ang China
David McMullen

10 Wei Cheng’s Thought [esp. Regarding Government]
Howard J. Wechsler

11 Imperial Power and the Ruling Class [under Empress Wu]
Richard W. L. Guisso

12 The Chou Dynasty [of Empress Wu]
Richard W. L. Guisso

13 The Career of Yang Kuei-fei
Howard S. Levy

14 The Flight from the Capital and the Death of Precious Consort Yang
Paul W. Kroll

15 Foreign Policy
P. A. Herbert

16 The An Lu-shan Rebellion and the Origins of Chronic Militarism in Late T’ang China
Edwin G. Pulleyblank

Literature and Cultural History

17 T’ang Literati: A Composite Biography
Hans H. Frankel

18 Transparencies: Reading the T’ang Lyric
Stephen Owen

19 The Significance of the fu in the History of T’ang Poetry
Paul W. Kroll

20 An Offering to the Prince: Wang Bo’s Apology for Poetry
Ding Xiang Warner

21 Tamed Kite and Stranded Fish: Interference and Apology in Lu Chao-lin’s fu
Paul W. Kroll

22 A Re-evaluation of Chen Ziang’s 陳子昂 ‘Manifesto of a Poetic Reform’
Timothy Wai Keung Chan

23 On Li Po 李白
Elling O. Eide

24 Li Po’s Letters in Pursuit of Political Patronage
Victor H. Mair

25 Li Bai’s ‘Rhapsody on the Hall of Light’: A Singular Vision of Cosmic Order
Nicholas Morrow Williams

26 Tu Fu 杜甫
Stephen Owen

27 Tu Fu’s Social Conscience: Compassion and Topicality in his Poetry
Eva Shan Chou

28 Poems in Their Place: Collections and Canons in Early Chinese Literature
Pauline Yu

29 Heyue yingling ji 河嶽英靈集 and the Attributes of Tang Verse
Paul W. Kroll

30 The Formation of the T’ang Estate Poem
Stephen Owen

31 Lexical Landscapes and Textual Mountains in the High T’ang
Paul W. Kroll

32 Historical and Literary Theory in the Mid-Eighth Century
David McMullen

33 The Manuscript Legacy of the Tang: The Case of Literature
Stephen Owen

34 Literary Collections in Tang Dynasty China
Christopher M. B. Nugent

35 A Study of the Jinglong wenguan ji 景龍文館記
Jia Jinhua

36 The Old-Style fu of Han Yu 韓愈
David R. Knechtges

37 Another Go at the Mao Ying chuan 毛穎傳
Elling O. Eide

38 The Old Men [of the Early Ninth Century]
Stephen Owen

39 The Inscription of Emotion in Mid-Tang Collegial Letters
Anna M. Shields

40 Yüan Chen 元稹 and ‘The Story of Ying-ying’ 鶯鶯傳
James Robert Hightower

41 Nostalgia and History in Mid-Ninth-Century Verse: Cheng Yü’s Poem on ‘The Chin-yang Gate’
Paul W. Kroll

42 Remembering Kaiyuan and Tianbao: The Construction of Mosaic Memory in Medieval Historical Miscellanies
Manling Luo

43 The Dancing Horses of T’ang
Paul W. Kroll

44 Falconry in T’ang Times
Edward H. Schafer

45 Public Values in Calligraphy and Orthography in the Tang Dynasty
Amy McNair

Religion

46 The Role of Buddhist Monasteries in T’ang Society
Kenneth K. S. Ch’en

47 Buddhism and Education in T’ang Times
Erik Zürcher

48 Imperial Patronage in the Formation of T’ang Buddhism
Stanley Weinstein

49 Stūpa, Sūtra, Śarīra in China, c. 656–706 CE
T. H. Barrett

50 The Birth of a Patriarch: The Biography of Hui-neng
Philip B. Yampolsky

51 Metropolitan Chan
John R. McRae

52 Time after Time: Taoist Apocalyptic History and the Founding of the T’ang Dynasty
Stephen R. Bokenkamp

53 Taoist Ordination Ranks in the Tunhuang Manuscripts
Kristofer M. Schipper

54 Taoism in the T’ien-pao Era, 742–56
T. H. Barrett

55 Li Po’s Transcendent Diction
Paul W. Kroll

56 Immortality Can be Studied
Jan De Meyer

57 The Worshippers of Mount Hua
Glen Dudbridge

Friday, January 19, 2018

後漢の儒学と『春秋』

Author:
斎木哲郎 (SAIKI Tetsuro)

Publication Date:
January 2018

Publisher:
汲古書院



Table of Contents:

第一章 『春秋』經と孔子
一 衞聚賢氏の孔子『春秋』經製作説     
二 孔子『春秋』製作説の批判――戴晉新氏の説
三 趙生群氏の「孔子『春秋』製作説」肯定論について
四 總  括――『魯春秋』と『春秋』經――

第二章 『春秋』傳義の成立――『穀梁傳』に關するその學説史的展開――
一 孟子と『春秋』――『春秋』傳説の成立――
二 『春秋穀梁傳』の成立

第三章 雲夢秦簡『編年記』と『秦記』
――秦代春秋學の一斷面――
一 雲夢睡虎地秦墓竹簡『編年記』      
二 『編年記』の作者「喜」に關する論爭
三 『編年記』の記述形式          
四 喜の生涯
五 『秦記』の記録法について――もう一つの春秋學史――

第四章 『白虎通義』 と後漢の儒學
一 『白虎通義』とその周縁  (一)『白虎議奏』と『白虎通義』/(二)章句の學
二 『禮記』王制篇から『白虎通義』へ――緯書説の流入――
三 白虎觀會議の判定方式(一)――『春秋公羊傳』義の優位
四 白虎觀會議の判定方式(二)――『春秋公羊傳』と「春秋傳曰」
五 經義の變更と新たな意義づけ       
六 「尊尊」としての君臣の義        七 天と後漢王朝

第五章 許愼の『五經異義』について
一 許愼の生涯               
二 『五經異義』著作の意圖
三 「春秋傳」から「春秋説」へ       
四 「公羊」「左氏」説と許愼

第六章 鄭玄と何休の『春秋』論爭―
鄭玄の『發墨守』『鍼膏肓』『起廢疾』を中心として―
一 何休と鄭玄               
二 何休の『左氏』『穀梁』批判
三 鄭玄の何休説批判とその『春秋』解

第七章 桓譚『新論』の春秋學
一 『新論』と『春秋』           
二 『新論』の春秋學(上)
三 『新論』の春秋學(下)

第八章 王充の思想形成と『春秋』
一 奇妙な生涯               
二 『論衡』と『春秋』
三 王充と『春秋』及び『春秋』三傳の關係  
四 想像的解釋の獲得

第九章 王符の『潛夫論』――社會批判としての儒教――
一 儒學の構圖               
二 漢朝の事情と王符の現在
三 「愛日」の思想             
四 赦贖の非道
五 賢者の認識

第十章 荀悅の『漢紀』と『申鍳』について――春秋學から鑑戒へ――
一 生涯と『漢紀』『申鍳』の著成       
二 『漢紀』の訓戒とその形式
三 忠義への偏執
四 『漢紀』から『申鍳』へ――『申鍳』「時事第二」の構造――
五 獻帝へのアフォリズム

あとがき/索 引

Sunday, December 24, 2017

Confucianism in China: An Introduction

Author:
Tony Swain

Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing

Publication Date:
September 2017



Abstract:

This accessible history of Confucianism, or the 'Way of the Ru', emphasizes the religious dimensions of the tradition. It clearly explains the tradition's unique and subtle philosophical ideals as well as the 'arts of the Ru' whereby seemingly simple acts such as reading, sitting quietly, good manners, and attending to family and state responsibilities, became ways of ultimate transformation.

This book explains the origins of the Ru and documents their impact in imperial China, before providing extensive coverage of the modern era. Confucianism in China: An Introduction shows how the long history of the Ru is vital to comprehending China today. As the empire drew to an end, there were impassioned movements both to reinvent and to eradicate Ru tradition. Less than forty years ago, it seemed close to extinction, but today it is undergoing spectacular revival.

This introduction is suitable for anyone wishing to understand a tradition that shaped imperial China and which is now increasingly swaying Chinese religious, philosophical, political, and economic developments. The book contains a glossary of key terms and 22 images, and further resources can be found on the book's webpage


Thursday, September 28, 2017

A Concise Companion to Confucius

Editor:
Paul R. Goldin

Publisher:
Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date:
Aug, 2017




Abstract:

A Concise Companion to Confucius offers a succinct introduction to one of East Asia’s most widely-revered historical figures, providing essential coverage of his legacy at a manageable length. The volume embraces Confucius as philosopher, teacher, politician, and sage, and curates a collection of key perspectives on his life and teachings from a team of distinguished scholars in philosophy, history, religious studies, and the history of art. Taken together, chapters encourage specialists to read across disciplinary boundaries, provide nuanced paths of introduction for students, and engage interested readers who want to expand their understanding of the great Chinese master.

Divided into four distinct sections, the Concise Companion depicts a coherent figure of Confucius by examining his diverse representations from antiquity through to the modern world. Readers are guided through the intellectual and cultural influences that helped shape the development of Confucian philosophy and its reception among late imperial literati in medieval China. Later essays consider Confucius’s engagement with topics such as warfare, women, and Western philosophy, which remain fruitful avenues of philosophical inquiry today. The collection concludes by exploring the significance of Confucian thought in East Asia’s contemporary landscape and the major intellectual movements which are reviving and rethinking his work for the twenty-first century.

An indispensable resource, A Concise Companion to Confucius blazes an authoritative trail through centuries of scholarship to offer exceptional insight into one of history’s earliest and most influential ancient philosophers.

Table of Contents:

Notes on Contributors vii

Introduction: Confucius and Confucianism 1
Paul R. Goldin

Part I Representations of Confucius 13

1 Early Sources for Confucius 15
Michael Hunter

2 Confucius in Excavated Warring States Manuscripts 35
Scott Cook

3 The Unorthodox Master: The Serious and the Playful in Depictions of Confucius 52
Oliver Weingarten

4 Representations of Confucius in Apocrypha of the First Century CE 75
Zhao Lu

5 Visual Representations of Confucius 93
Julia K. Murray

Part II Confucian Ideas 131

6 Le in the Analects 133
Kwong-loi Shun

7 Women in the Analects 148
Anne Behnke Kinney

8 Confucius’ Elitism: The Concepts of junzi and xiaoren Revisited 164
Yuri Pines

9 Confucius and Filial Piety 185
Thomas Radice

10 The Gentleman’s Views on Warfare according to the Gongyang Commentary 208
Sarah A. Queen

11 Comparisons with Western Philosophy 229
Erin M. Cline

Part III The Legacy of Confucius in Imperial China 247

12 From Uncrowned King to the Sage of Profound Greatness: Confucius and the Analects in Early Medieval China 249
Alan K. L. Chan

13 The Reception of The Classic of Filial Piety from Medieval to Late Imperial China 268
Miaw-fen Lu 呂妙芬

14 Kongzi as the Uncrowned King in some Qing Gongyang Exegeses 286
On-cho Ng

Part IV Confucius and New Confucianisms in Modern East Asia 305

15 Confucianism, Capitalism, and Shibusawa Eiichi’s The Analects and the Abacus 307
John A. Tucker

16 Confucius in the May Fourth Era 330
Q. Edward Wang

17 New Confucianism 352
Yong Huang

The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought

Author:
Michael Ing

Publication Date:
2017

Publisher:
Oxford





Abstract:

The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought is about the necessity and value of vulnerability in human experience. In this book, Michael Ing brings early Chinese texts into dialogue with questions about the ways in which meaningful things are vulnerable to powers beyond our control, and more specifically how relationships with meaningful others might compel tragic actions.

Vulnerability is often understood as an undesirable state; invulnerability is usually preferred. While recognizing the need to reduce vulnerability in some situations, The Vulnerability of Integrity demonstrates that vulnerability is pervasive in human experience, and enables values such as morality, trust, and maturity. Vulnerability is also the source of the need for care for oneself and for others. The possibility of tragic loss fosters compassion for others as we strive to care for each other.

This book demonstrates the plurality of Confucian thought on this topic. The first two chapters describe traditional and contemporary arguments for the invulnerability of integrity in early Confucian thought. The remainder of the book focuses on neglected voices in the tradition, which argue that our concern for others can and should lead to us compromise our own integrity. In such cases, we are compelled to do something transgressive for the sake of others, and our integrity is jeopardized in the transgressive act.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Conventions
Introduction
1. The Invulnerability of Integrity: Early Texts and Commentators
2. The Invulnerability of Integrity: Contemporary Scholarship
3. The Sorrow of Regret
4. Regret, Resentment, and Transgression
5. Irresolvable Value Conflicts in a Conflictual World
6. The Conflictual World of the Sages
7. The Vulnerability of Integrity
Conclusion: The Value of Vulnerability
Bibliography

Monday, February 13, 2017

Confucius Beyond the Analects

Author:
Michael Hunter

Publisher:
Brill

Publication Date:
February, 2017




Abstract:

In Confucius Beyond the Analects, Michael Hunter challenges the standard view of the Analects as the earliest and most authoritative source of the teachings of Confucius. Arguing from a comprehensive survey of the thousands of extant sayings and stories from the early period, Hunter situates the compilation and rise of the Analects in the Western Han period (206 BCE–9 CE), roughly three centuries after the death of Confucius. As a study of the growth and development of the Confucius figure over the course of the early period, the book is also meant to serve as a roadmap for those interested in exploring the wealth and diversity of Confucius material beyond the Analects.

Table of Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Part 1 Beyond the Analects

1 The Big Picture

2 A Dozen Perspectives on “Confucius” beyond the Analects

Part 2 The Analects in Context

3 The Analects Ascendant, ca. 100 BCE–220 CE

4 Searching for a Pre-Han Analects

5 Reading the Analects in Context
Digression – The Compilation and Rise of the Analects: A Speculative Scenario

6 Conclusion: Confucius, the Analects, and Early Chinese Thought

Saturday, December 17, 2016

The Commentarial Transformation of the Spring and Autumn

Author:
Newell Ann Van Auken

Publication Date:
December 2016

Publisher:
SUNY Press




Abstract:

The Spring and Autumn is among the earliest surviving Chinese historical records, covering the period 722–479 BCE. It is a curious text: the canonical interpretation claims that it was composed by Confucius and embodies his moral judgments, but this view appears to be contradicted by the brief and dispassionate records themselves. Newell Ann Van Auken addresses this puzzling discrepancy through an examination of early interpretations of the Spring and Autumn, and uncovers a crucial missing link in two sets of commentarial remarks embedded in the Zuoû Tradition. These embedded commentaries do not seek moral judgments in the Spring and Autumn, but instead interpret its records as produced by a historiographical tradition that was governed by rules related to hierarchy and ritual practice. Van Auken’s exploration of the Zuo Tradition and other early commentaries sheds light on the transformation of the Spring and Autumn from a simple, non-narrative historical record into a Confucian classic.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Scholarly Conventions

Introduction
 Text, Commentary, and Authority
 The Spring and Autumn: An Overview and Brief Reception History
 The Zuô Tradition and Spring and Autumn Commentary
 Overview of the Book

1. Orthodoxy and Transformation: Two Categories of Commentary

2. The Ritual Filter and the Centrality of Lǔ

3. Hierarchy, Criticism, and Commendation: Recognizing Merit and Assigning Fault

4. Two Ways of Teaching the Spring and Autumn: The Sources of the Direct Commentaries

5. Other Approaches to Commentary in the Zuô Tradition: The Gentleman and Confucius

6. Incomplete Correspondences and the Likelihood of Mediated Contact: The Relation of the Direct Commentaries to Gōngyáng and Gǔliáng

7. From Recording Rules to Written Text: Conceptual Antecedents to Gōngyáng and Gǔliáng in the Direct Commentaries

Epilogue

Appendix
Summaries and Topical Lists of the Direct Commentary Passages
Summaries: Specific Remarks
Summaries: General Remarks
Topical Lists of Direct Commentary Passages

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Écrits de Maître Xun 荀子

Translator:
Ivan P. Kamenarovic

Publisher:
Paris : Belles lettres

Publication Date:
April 15, 2016




Abstract:

Le Xunzi a pour auteur le penseur du même nom. Xunzi, qui se réclame de Confucius, a vécu entre le IVe et le IIIe siècle avant notre ère. Ainsi que nombre de penseurs chinois, depuis Confucius jusqu'à des figures importantes du début du XXe siècle, il a exercé des fonctions officielles, ce qui lui a donné une expérience irremplaçable. Le recueil qui nous a été transmis sous son nom est
le premier ouvrage d'un penseur chinois qui ait pris soin d’écrire lui-même la teneur de son enseignement. Confucius n’a rien écrit, de Mengzi nous n’avons que des témoignages de disciples, nous ne sommes pas même sûrs que Laozi ait existé et la part du Zhuangzi qui est réellement due à Zhuangzi lui-même est sans doute réduite.

L’exemple du Xunzi fut très suivi au cours des siècles et les Chinois sont habitués à ce que les livres de leurs penseurs abordent des sujets extrêmement variés. L’histoire, le langage, la morale, la politique, l’écologie, la musique, l’art de la guerre, l’étude, les théories des autres écoles de pensée, les textes considérés déjà comme classiques à son époque, tout lui est matière à penser et à écrire, surtout en prose mais parfois aussi en vers. L’immense prestige de Xunzi s’explique par la richesse des thèmes dont il traite, par la connaissance qu’il a eue de très nombreux autres penseurs, qu’il ne se prive pas de critiquer, parfois vertement et aussi par la richesse de sa pensée sur des thèmes centraux de la vie humaine. Sa réflexion sur le langage a traversé les siècles et sa méditation sur le thème de la « mauvaiseté » foncière de la nature humaine n’a pas fini de faire couler de l’encre. Il s’élève contre toutes les superstitions, raillant à la fois les physiognomonistes et les dévots qui suivent aveuglément les processions destinées à faire venir la pluie ou à attirer les bénédictions des dieux.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Sommaire
Repères chronologiques
Carte
Bibliographie sélective

Chapitre I – Exhortation à l'étude
Chapitre II – Se parfaire soi-même
Chapitre III – Contre la négligence
Chapitre IV – De l’honneur et de la honte
Chapitre V – Contre les physiognomonistes
Chapitre VI – Contre les douze maîtres
Chapitre VII – Confucius
Chapitre VIII – Le modèle du lettré
Chapitre IX – De l’administration royale
Chapitre X – De la prospérité des pays
Chapitre XI – Du roi et de l’hégémon
Chapitre XII – La voie du prince
Chapitre XIII – La voie du ministre
Chapitre XIV – Attirer les gens instruits
Chapitre XV – Des affaires militaires
Chapitre XVI – Renforcer l’État
Chapitre XVII – Du ciel
Chapitre XVIII – De la rectitude dans les discours
Chapitre XIX – Des rites
Chapitre XX – De la musique
Chapitre XXI – Dissiper les erreurs
Chapitre XXII – De la rectification des noms
Chapitre XXIII – La nature humaine est mauvaise
Chapitre XXIV – De l’homme accompli
Chapitre XXV – Écouter un chant rythmé
Chapitre XXVI – Élégies
Chapitre XXVII – Les grands principes
Chapitre XXVIII – Le vase incliné
Chapitre XXIX – La voie filiale
Chapitre XXX – Préceptes de bonne conduite
Chapitre XXXI – Le prince Ai de Lu
Chapitre XXXII – Une question de Yao

Texte additionnel
Index des noms propres
Index des oeuvres

Monday, May 9, 2016

Acta Asiatica 109: A New Approach to Chinese Intellectual History

A new approach to Chinese intellectual history: with a focus on modes of scholarship and their transmission from the pre-Ch‘in to T‘ang periods. Acta Asiatica : Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture, 109, August 2015, 106 p.

Publisher: 
Tokyo : Tōhō Gakkai

Table of Contents:

KOMINAMI Ichirō (小南一郎): Introduction

KOMINAMI Ichirō (小南一郎): The school system in ancient China

SHIN Hyeon (辛賢): Aspects of study of the Confucian Classics during the Han: The formation of cosmological “knowledge”

YOSHIKAWA Tadao (吉川忠夫):. “Family scholarship” during the Six dynasties and its milieu

FUNAYAMA Tōru (船山徹):Buddhism during the Liang dynasty: Some of its characteristics as a form of scholarship

Monday, April 11, 2016

Chinese Philosophy on Teaching and Learning: Xueji (學記) in the Twenty-First Century

Editors:
Xu Di (許笛) & Hunter McEwan

Publisher:

SUNY Press

Publication Date:

April 2016




Abstract:


A translation and discussion of the central Confucian text on education, Xueji (On Learning and Teaching), influential in China from the Han dynasty to the present day. Written over two and a half millennia ago, the Xueji (On Teaching and Learning) is one of the oldest and most comprehensive works on educational philosophy and teaching methods as well as a consideration of the appropriate roles of teachers and students. The Xueji was included in the Liji (On Ritual), one of the Five Classics that became the heart of the educational system during China’s imperial era, and it contains the ritual protocols adopted by the Imperial Academy during the Han dynasty.

Chinese Philosophy on Teaching and Learning provides a new translation of the Xueji along with essays exploring this work from both Western and Chinese perspectives. Contributors examine the roots of educational thought in classical Chinese philosophy, outline similarities and differences with ideas rooted in classical Greek thought, and explore what the Xueji can offer educators today.

Table of Contents:

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Monday, April 4, 2016

The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life

Authors:
Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh

Publisher: 
Simon & Schuster 

Publication Date:
April 5, 2016




Abstract:

For the first time an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how these ancient ideas can guide you on the path to a good life today.

Why is a course on ancient Chinese philosophers one of the most popular at Harvard?

It’s because the course challenges all our modern assumptions about what it takes to flourish. This is why Professor Michael Puett says to his students, “The encounter with these ideas will change your life.” As one of them told his collaborator, author Christine Gross-Loh, “You can open yourself up to possibilities you never imagined were even possible.”

These astonishing teachings emerged two thousand years ago through the work of a succession of Chinese scholars exploring how humans can improve themselves and their society. And what are these counterintuitive ideas? Good relationships come not from being sincere and authentic, but from the rituals we perform within them. Influence comes not from wielding power but from holding back. Excellence comes from what we choose to do, not our natural abilities. A good life emerges not from planning it out, but through training ourselves to respond well to small moments. Transformation comes not from looking within for a true self, but from creating conditions that produce new possibilities.

In other words, The Path upends everything we are told about how to lead a good life. Above all, unlike most books on the subject, its most radical idea is that there is no path to follow in the first place—just a journey we create anew at every moment by seeing and doing things differently.

Sometimes voices from the past can offer possibilities for thinking afresh about the future.

Table of Contents:

The age of complacency
The age of philosophy
On relationships: Confucius, and as-if ritual
On decisions: Mencius, and the capricious world
On influence: Laozi, and generating worlds
On vitality: the inward training, and being like a spirit
On spontaneity: Zhuangzi, and the world of transformation
On humanity: Xunzi, and putting pattern on the world
The age of possibility

Friday, March 18, 2016

Vanishing into Things: Knowledge in Chinese Tradition

Author:
Allen, Barry

Publication Date:
24 April 2015

Publisher:
Harvard University Press





Abstract:
Vanishing into Things explores the concept of knowledge in Chinese thought over two millennia, from Confucius to Wang Yangming (ca. 1500 CE), and compares the different philosophical imperatives that have driven Chinese and Western thought. Challenging the hyperspecialized epistemology of modern philosophy in the West, Barry Allen urges his readers toward an ethical appreciation of why knowledge is worth pursuing.

Western philosophers have long maintained that true knowledge is the best knowledge. Chinese thinkers, by contrast, have emphasized not the essence of knowing but the purpose. Ideas of truth play no part in their understanding of what the best knowledge is: knowledge is not deduced from principles or reducible to a theory. Rather, in Chinese tradition knowledge is expressed through wu wei, literally “not doing”—a response to circumstances that is at once effortless and effective. This type of knowledge perceives the evolution of circumstances from an early point, when its course can still be changed, provided one has the wisdom to grasp the opportunity.

Allen guides readers through the major Confucian and Daoist thinkers including Kongzi, Mengzi, Xunzi, Laozi, and Zhuangzi, examining their influence on medieval Neoconfucianism and Chan (Zen) Buddhism, as well as the theme of knowledge in China’s art of war literature. The sophisticated and consistent concept of knowledge elucidated here will be of relevance to contemporary Western and Eastern philosophers alike.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: To Really See the Little Things
1. Confucians
2. Daoists
3. The Art of War
4. Chan Buddhism
5. The Investigation of Things
6. Resonance
Chronology
Notes
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index

Friday, February 26, 2016

中華帝国のジレンマ― 礼的思想と法的秩序

Author:
富谷至 (Tomiya Itaru)

Publication Date:
2016.2.15

Publisher:
筑摩書房






Table of Contents:

序文—法と礼の世界への誘い

Ⅰ 中国古代の礼
1 『論語』に見える礼
2 心の中の礼——孟子
3 作為の礼——荀子
4 礼典の成立

Ⅱ 中国古代法の成立と法的規範
1 法の起源と展開
2 律と令の法形式
3 律と令の法典化
4 中国法の原理

Ⅲ 交差する礼的秩序と法的秩序
1 礼から法へ
2 処罰される感謝の行為
3 法と礼の男女関係
4 殺人の奨励と礼賛

総論

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Traces of the Sage: Monument, Materiality, and the First Temple of Confucius

Author: 
James A Flath

Publisher: 
University of Hawaiʻi Press

Publisher:
2016




Abstract:

The Temple of Confucius (Kong Temple) in Qufu is the definitive monument to the world's greatest sage. From its humble origins deep in China's past, the home of Confucius grew in size and stature under the auspices of almost every major dynasty until it was the largest and most richly endowed temple in the Ming and Qing empires. The decline of state-sponsored ritualism in the twentieth century triggered a profound identity crisis for the temple and its worshipers, yet the fragile relic survived decades of neglect, war, and revolution and is now recognized as a national treasure and a World Heritage Site.

Traces of the Sage is the first comprehensive account of the history and material culture of Kong Temple. Following the temple's development through time and across space, it relates architecture to the practice of Confucianism, explains the temple's phenomenal perseverance, and explores the culture of building in China. Other chapters consider the problem of Confucian heritage conservation and development over the last hundred years—a period when the validity of Confucianism has been called into question—and the challenge of remaking Confucian heritage as a commercial enterprise. By reconstructing its "social life," the study interprets Kong Temple as an active site of transaction and negotiation and argues that meaning does not hide behind architecture but emerges from the circulation and regeneration of its spaces and materials.

The most complete work on a seminal monument in Chinese history through millennia, Traces of the Sage will find a ready audience among cultural and political historians of imperial and modern China as well as students and scholars of architectural history and theory and Chinese ritual.

Table of Contents:

Kong Temple as structure
Ritual as material culture
Kong Temple as space
Kong Temple and the modern politics of culture
Confucius Inc.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Ritual and Religion in the Xunzi (《荀子》中的禮儀與宗教)

Editors: 
T. C. Kline III, Justin Tiwald

Publisher:
SUNY Press

Publication Year:
2014

Abstract:
Xunzi, a founding figure in the Confucian tradition, is one of the world’s great philosophers and theorists of religion. For much of the last century, his work has been seen largely as critical of religion, particularly the popular beliefs and invocations of supernatural forces that underpin so many religious rituals. Contributors to this volume challenge this view and offer a more sophisticated picture of Xunzi. He emerges not as critic, but rather as an adherent of religion who seeks to give religious practices meaning even though many religious beliefs are mistaken or self-serving. Each essay offers a powerful illustration of Xunzi as both a religious devotee and as a philosopher of religion, drawing on a wide array of disciplines and methodologies.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Notes on Conventions
Introduction

Religious Vision

1. Xunzi as a Religious Philosopher
Edward J. Machle

2. A Happy Symmetry: Xunzi’s Ecological Ethic
Philip J. Ivanhoe

Ritual Theory

3. Ritual and Religion: A Lesson from Xunzi for Today
Robert C. Neville

4. Xunzi: Ritualization as Humanization
Lee H. Yearly

5. Xunzi’s Reinterpretation of Ritual: A Hermeneutic Defense of the Confucian Way
Mark Berkson

Comparative Approaches

6. Ritual and Tradition in Xunzi and Dōgen
James Robson

7. Sheltering Under the Sacred Canopy: Peter Berger and Xunzi
T. C. Kline III

Selected Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index