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Title Huainanzi and textual production in early China / edited by Sarah A. Queen and Michael Puett
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014

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Series Studies in the history of Chinese texts, 1877-9425 ; volume 5
Studies in the history of Chinese texts ; v. 5.
Contents Introduction / Sarah A. Queen and Michael Puett -- Part One. Authorship and textual formation -- Root-branches structuralism in the Huainanzi / Andrew Meyer -- Daoist inner cultivation thought and the textual structure of the Huainanzi / Harold D. Roth -- Representations of Confucius in the Huainanzi / Sarah A. Queen -- Creating a book and performing it : the "Yao Lue" chapter of the Huainanzi as a Western Han Fu / Martin Kern -- Part Two. Knowledge and rhetoric -- Tool metaphors in the Huainanzi and other early texts / John S. Major -- The Huainanzi's "Heavenly Patterns" and the Shiji's "Treatise on the celestial offices" : what's the difference? / David W. Pankenier -- A note on logical connectives in the Huainanzi / Michael Nylan -- Part Three. Audience and reception -- Sages, creation, and the end of history in the Huainanzi / Michael Puett -- The Liu clan's "Flesh and Bone" : the foundation of Liu An's vision of empire / Judson B. Murray -- The discourse about lords (zhuhou) in the Huainanzi / Griet Vankeerberghen -- Breaking through Heaven's glass ceiling : the significance of the commoner woman of Qi in the "Lan Ming" chapter of the Huananzi / Anne Behnke Kinney
Summary The Han dynasty Huainanzi is a compendium of knowledge. This edited volume follows a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how and why the Huainanzi was produced and how we should interpret the work
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-391) and index
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Print version record
SUBJECT Huainanzi -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Huainanzi -- Criticism, Textual
Huainanzi -- Influence
Huainan zi fast
Subject Learning and scholarship -- China -- History -- To 1500
Chinese literature -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D. -- History and criticism
Chinese literature -- Authorship
Philosophy, Chinese -- History -- To 1500
PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
Chinese literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life
Learning and scholarship
Philosophy, Chinese
China -- Intellectual life -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D.
China
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Queen, Sarah A. (Sarah Ann), editor.
Puett, Michael, editor
ISBN 9789004265325
9004265325
1306689023
9781306689021
9789004265035
9004265031