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Xunzi A Translation and Study of the Complete Works Volume II Books 7-16
$29.40
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This was originally published in 1990.
Writing at the end of the great flowering of philosophical inquiry in Warring States, China, when the foundations for traditional Chinese thought were laid, Xunzi occupies in the East a place analogous to that of Aristotle in the West. The collection of works bearing his name contains not only the most systematic philosophical exposition by any early Confusian thinker but also accounts for virtually every aspect of the intellectual, cultural, and political life of his time.
This is the second of three volumes that will constitute the first complete translation of Xunzi into English and published in 1990. The first volume, covering Books 1-6 and dealing with self-cultivation, learning, and education, was published in 1988. The present volume consists of Books 7-16 and deals with political theory, ethics, and ideal man, and the lessons to be drawn from history.
In the third volume, published in 1994, books 17-24, discusses problems of knowledge and logic; the fundamental nature of the world; the significance of music and ritual; and the nature of man. Books 25-32 contain Xunzi’s poetry, a miscellany of short passages collected together in one book, and several collections of sayings, comments, and exemplary anecdotes about events, personages, and ideas important to early Confusians.
The translation is accompanied by substantial explanatory material identifying technical terms, persons, and events; detailed introductions to each book; and extensive annotation, with characters when desirable, indicating the basis of the translations.
At the time of publication, John Knoblock was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original edition:
Title Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works Volume II, Books 7-16
Authors Xunzi, John Knoblock
Editor John Knoblock
Translated by John Knoblock
Compiled by John Knoblock
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1990
ISBN 0804717710, 9780804717717
Length 400 pages
STANFORD HORIZONS
$15.25
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Good fortune has kept me in the midst of a heady stream of youth for most of my life. Eager, enthusiastic, and light-hearted, but fundamentally ambitious, courageous, and confident of their control of the future, they have passed through the portals of Stanford into the horizon. To give some suggestions while they were on the way, or to offer them a final word, has been my privilege. Some of them have asked that they might read what they have heard me say.
The nation and the University have lived through a number of trying periods in the twenty years of my responsibility as President of Stanford. Some of these talks, while perhaps appropriate chiefly to the occasions on which they were delivered, seem worth recording, since crises and the need for individual decision will inevitably recur.
Once in a while one finds that some phrase or idea sticks in the mind of a boy and girl and is of use. To give an address is to broadcast into the blue. It becomes helpful only when someone is on the receiving end. If that someone is ear-minded, as most university students are, some effect may be produced; but since all of those who have been exposed to education have become likewise eye-minded, the present little volume is offered in the hope that even some students grown older will put on their lenses and hark back to those college days of exuberance,
romance, ambitions, and ideals.
RAY LYMAN WILBUR
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA
MAY 22, 1936
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original work: ISBN 080473534X
Title Stanford horizons: "Where the red roofs rim the blue", selected addresses, 1916-1936
Author Ray Lyman Wilbur
Publisher Stanford university press, 1936
Xunzi A Translation and Study of the Complete Works Volume III Books 17-32
$45.00
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Writing at the end of the great flowering of philosophical inquiry in Warring States , China, when the foundations for traditional Chinese thought were laid, Xunzi occupies in the East a place analogous to that of Aristotle in the West. The collection of works bearing his name contains not only the most systematic philosophical exposition by any early Confusian thinker but also accounts for virtually every aspect of the intellectual, cultural, and political life of his time.
This is the last of three volumes that constitute the first complete translation of the Xunzi into English. In the present volume, books 17-24 discuss problems of knowledge and logic; the fundamental nature of the world; the significance of music and ritual; and the nature of man. Books 25-32 contain Xunzi’s poetry, a miscellany of short passages collected together in one book, and several collections of sayings, comments, and exemplary anecdotes about events, personages, and ideas important to early Confusians. The first volume, Books 1-6, was published in 1988; the second volume, Books 7-16, was published in 1990.
The translation is accompanied by substantial explanatory material identifying technical terms, persons, and events; detailed introductions to each book; and extensive annotation, with characters when desirable, indicating the basis of the translations.
At the time of publication, John Knoblock was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original edition:
Title Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works/Books 17-32
Authors Xunzi, John Knoblock
Editor John Knoblock
Translated by John Knoblock
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1994
ISBN 0804722986, 9780804722988
Length 443 pages
The May Fourth Movement : Intellectual Revolution in Modern China
$27.28
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“A masterful study of what must now be recognized as one of the most significant intellectual movements in modern times…Chow Tse-tsung has produced a superb book so crammed with information that it is an indispensable reference guide for any student of modern China. Moreover, the skillful blending of historical detail with broad sociopolitical background has resulted in what is one of the finest interpretive studies of China yet to be produced.”
- Journal of the American Oriental Society
“In this book, Chow Tse-tsung gives the first comprehensive study of the movement in a Western language, and it I formidable. A thoroughly scholarly work, it opens fresh avenues to understanding modern China.”
- C. Martin Wilbur, The New York Times
“Dr. Chow is an expert guide and his conclusions are not likely to be disputed by impartial readers….A book which no student of revolutionary China can ignore.”
- C.P. FitzGerald, Pacific Affairs
“Dr. Chow’s exhaustive and well-informed study of this period fills a vital gap in our awareness of modern Chinese revolutionary history….Dr. Chow swings his searchlight over every detail of the period and maintains an undeviating objectivity.”
- The Times Literary Supplement
“The author has done full justice to the complexity and magnitude of his subject….The book is solidly founded on meticulous scholarship. Its greatest value lies in the wealth of material it has amassed from the voluminous Chinese journals. As a balanced, soundly informative account, Chow’s book will remain a major reference for many years to come.”
- The American Historical Review
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Title The May Fourth Movement
Author Chow Tse-tsung
Publisher Stanford University Press
ISBN 080470516X
Pioneer of the Chinese Revolution : Zhang Binglin and Confucianism
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Shimada Kenji is one of Japan’s greatest sinologists, with formidable scholarly accomplishments in many fields-classical Chinese thought, Neo-Confucianism in China and Japan, late Qing thought, the 1911 Revolution, and Sino-Japanese relations.
This book consists of two long essays touching on one of Shimada’s abiding themes, the influence of domestic Chinese systems of thought on the development of Chinese revolutionary thought. This massive project engages Shimada’s greatest strength, a profound awareness of and deep study in the history of Chinese philosophy and religion, when examining the people and ideas that culminated in the 1911 Revolution and the end of the imperial institution in China. Unlike most other scholars, Shimada takes his modern protagonists with complete seriousness when they draw on seemingly traditional ideas to justify radical change in the late nineteenth and earl twentieth centuries.
Zhang Binglin, the subject of the first essay in this book, is arguably the most misunderstood figure among the key revolutionaries of the 1911 period. The appearance of this classic essay, “Zhang Binglin: Traditional Chinese Scholar and Revolutionary” (1970), marked the first time that Zhang had been assessed as a whole person. Shimada explains how Zhang himself saw the inextricable links between a wholehearted devotion to traditional Chinese scholarship-indeed, the very preservation of that tradition- and the revolutionary cause. Often dismissed as a crackpot, brilliant or otherwise, or a perverse intransigent incapable of comprehending the modern world as it passed him by, Zhang has never received the kind of attention in the West that his importance warrants.
The second essay, “Confucius in the Era of the 1911 Revolution” (1978), deals with an issue that has never before received concerted attention. How could the figure of Confucius have been deified by the leaders of the 1898 Reform Movement and, less than two decades later, be excoriated by the leaders of the May Fourth Movement? Shimada analyzes the views concerning Confucianism of all the major groups (including the Qing government and overseas Chinese in Europe) in the period under study (1895-1919) before suggesting some answers to this fascinating question.
Shimada Kenji is Professor Emeritus of East Asian History at Kyoto University. Joshua A. Fogel is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
This is a reproduction edition for a scanned copy of the following original edition:
Title: By Pioneer of the Chinese Revolution
Author: Kenji Shimada
Published by Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804715815, 9780804715812
Contents
Introduction vii
Shimada Kenji’s Contributions to the Study of East Asian History, by Joshua A. Fogel
One 1
Zhang Binglin: Tradition Chinese Scholar and Revolutionary
Two 85
Confucius in the Era of the 1911 Revolution
Reference Matter
Notes 145
Character list 170
Index 177
In Search of the Supernatural THE WRITTEN RECORD
$20.20
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This is the first complete translation into a Western language of Sou-shen Chi, a fourth-century Chinese collection of 464 extraordinary, fantastic, or bizarre items. The subjects of these brief anecdotes and narratives include natural curiosities, gods, religious figures, omens, dreams, divinations, miracles, monsters, strange animals, demons, ghosts, and exorcists. The stories range from sober reports of drought and misfortune to accounts of a fox transformed into a storm, a grandmother transformed into turtle, persons whose heads could take independent flight at night, a tryst in a tomb, and the marriages of humans with spirits.
Sou-shen Chi is the oldest, richest, and most varied example of the chih-kuai genre, an important division of classical Chinese literature generating features of narrative technique and pictorial sensibility that point to chih-kaui as the earliest examples of Chinese fiction. Of the few surviving versions of Sou-shen Chi, the edition translated here is widely acknowledged as the best representation of the work of compiler, Kan Pao, the official court historian of Emperor Yuan of the Chin dynasty. The style of writing is terse, almost austere, and it has a documentary prose, a reflection of its ancestry with historical writing.
Sou-shen Chi served as a model for subsequent collections and provided many basic plots, characters, and situations for plays, novels, and even poetry. The stories were widely known and became part of the body of allusions that literate Chinese knew and used in their own writings. For example, in the twentieth century, Lu Xun retold, in extended fashion, a tale of magic swords that comes from Sou-shen Chi.
Kenneth DeWoskin is Professor of Chinese and J.I. Crump, Jr. is Emeritus Professor of Chinese at the University of Michigan. Both have published extensively in several fields in Chinese studies.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy for Stanford University Press.
Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism
$20.92
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Taking a new approach to the history of Buddhism, this book describes how Buddhist authors reorganized family values in China. Close readings of more than twenty Buddhist texts written in China from the fifth to the thirteenth century demonstrate that Buddhist authors crafted new models for family reproduction based on a mother-son style of filial piety, in contrast to the traditional father-son model.
Building on itself century after century, Buddhist propaganda sought to produce three elemental responses: (1) guilt and a sense of indebtedness to one's mother, (2) suspicion regarding the mother's sexual and sinful nature, and (3) faith that the Buddhist monastic institution could, if correctly patronized, cancel the debts and expiate the sins that it so painstakingly promulgated. Emerging at the end of this arc of Buddhist ideology is something resembling "original sin", or, better, the "sin of birth", in which all mothers are threatened with infernal punishment simply for their role in procreation.
The author draws on modern critical and psychoanalytic perspectives to argue that by reorienting family values, the Buddhists succeeded in bridging the gap between the private world of the Chinese family and the public presence of monastic Buddhism, thereby working Buddhism into Chinese society on several levels: sexual, familial, monetary, and political. Surprisingly, Buddhist family values, despite their intrusive nature and unprecedented focus on the mother, remained committed to supporting the traditional patrilineal family. The book thus demonstrates that the personal and intimate mother-son complex provided engaging desires and fears that were gradually shaped and directed by apropaganda effort seeking reliable support for both professional Buddhists and the patriarchal family.
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