Shizi

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231504179
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shizi written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By blending multiple strands of thought into one ideology, Chinese Syncretists of the pre-imperial period created an essential guide to contemporary ideas about self, society, and government. Merging traditions such as Ruism, Mohism, Daoism, Legalism, and Yin-Yang naturalism into their work, Syncretists created an integrated intellectual approach that contrasts with other, more specific philosophies. Presenting the first full English translation of the earliest example of a Syncretist text, this volume introduces Western scholars to both the brilliance of the syncretic method and a critical work of Chinese leadership. Written by Shi Jiao, China's first syncretic thinker, during the Warring States Period of 481 to 221 BCE, Shizi is similar to Machiavelli's The Prince in that it dispenses wisdom to would-be rulers. It stresses the need for leaders to be detached and objective. It further encourages self-cultivation and effective government, recommending that rulers maintain self-discipline, hire reliable people, delegate power transparently, and promote others in an orderly fashion. The people, it is argued, will emulate their leader's wisdom and virtue, and a just and peaceful state will result. Paul Fischer provides an extensive introduction and a chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis of the text—outlining the importance of syncretism in Chinese culture—and explores the text's particular features, authorship, transmission, loss, and reconstruction over time. The Shizi set the stage for a long history of syncretic endeavor in China, and its study provides insight into the vital traditions of early Chinese philosophy. It is also a template for interpreting other well-known works, such as the Confucian Analects, the Daoist Laozi, the Mohist Mozi, and the Legalist Shang jun shu.

Author : Östasiatiska museet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by Östasiatiska museet and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rafe de Crespigny
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047411846
Total Pages : 1347 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD) written by Rafe de Crespigny and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 1347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the long-awaited complement to Michael Loewe's acclaimed Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (2000). With more than 8,000 entries, based upon historical records and surviving inscriptions, the comprehensive Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD) now provides information on men and women of the Chinese world who lived at the time of Later (or Eastern) Han, from Liu Xiu, founding Emperor Guangwu (reg. 24-57), to the celebrated warlord Cao Cao (155-220) at the end of the dynasty. The entries, including surnames, personal names, styles and dates, are accompanied by maps, genealogical tables and indexes, with lists of books and special accounts of women. These features, together with the convenient surveys of the history and the administrative structure of the dynasty, will make Rafe de Crespigny's work an indispensable tool for any further serious study of a significant but comparatively neglected period of imperial China.

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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824875850
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ABC Chinese-English Dictionary written by and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel REAUD
Publisher : Xamisoft
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Guru Companion Manual - HSK 2+ Stories - Volume 1 written by Samuel REAUD and published by Xamisoft. This book was released on with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Guru Companion Manual, your essential guide to mastering Chinese through a structured and engaging approach. This manual is designed to complement the Chinese Guru mobile application, available on the App Store and Google Play Store, but it can also be used on its own. Our aim is to enhance your learning experience by providing you with a comprehensive collection of texts, vocabulary lists, grammatical notes, and cultural insights. This is the HSK 2+ volume. It contains 10 stories already available in the Chinese Guru mobile application.

Author : Paul van Els
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438466110
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between History and Philosophy written by Paul van Els and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the use of anecdotes as an essential rhetorical tool and form of persuasion in various literary genres in early China. Between History and Philosophy is the first book-length study in English to focus on the rhetorical functions and forms of anecdotal narratives in early China. Edited by Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen, this volume advances the thesis that anecdotes—brief, freestanding accounts of single events involving historical figures, and occasionally also unnamed persons, animals, objects, or abstractions—served as an essential tool of persuasion and meaning-making within larger texts. Contributors to the volume analyze the use of anecdotes from the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty, including their relations to other types of narrative, their circulation and reception, and their central position as a mode of argumentation in a variety of historical and philosophical literary genres.

Author : Kenneth Holloway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199707685
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guodian written by Kenneth Holloway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen years ago, a corpus of bamboo-strip texts was found in a late-fourth-century-BCE tomb at Jingmen, Hubei province in central China. The discovery of the "Guodian" texts, together with other recently discovered Warring States manuscripts, has revolutionized the study of early Chinese intellectual history. Kenneth Holloway argues that the Guodian corpus puts forth a political philosophy based on the harmonious interconnection of individuals engaged in moral self cultivation. This unique worldview, says Holloway, cannot meaningfully be categorized as "Confucian" or "Daoist," because it shares important concepts and vocabulary with a number of different textual traditions that have anachronistically been characterized as competing or incompatible "schools" of thought. He finds that within the Guodian corpus familiar philosophical concepts and texts are applied in distinctive ways, presenting a worldview that is quite different from the received textual traditions. In addition to contributing to our understanding of this particular body of texts, Holloway proposes a methodology for assessing a corpus of texts without relying on assumptions and definitions that derive from two millennia of scholarship.

Author : Zhou Shao
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1649489951
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immortal Descending written by Zhou Shao and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AD 2012, October 1st. NASA received a set of data from a satellite. After deciphering it, it was found to be a picture of the Earth.

Author : Ruo XueWuHen
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1648974147
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforming The Universe written by Ruo XueWuHen and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Young Master of the Lu Family, Lu Chen, had no talent in cultivation since he was a child. He was attacked while he was out and Lu Yu died to save Lu Chen. Lu Chen was charged with deliberately killing Lu Yu and was kicked out of the Lu Family. Lu Chen, who wanted to find out the truth, was hunted down after he left the Lu family. Lu Chen, who was forced into a dead forest, ate an immortal fruit to improve his body, but was possessed by his nascent soul ... Three years later, Lu Chen returned to the Lu Family and set off a huge commotion on Sky Dragon Continent. He had also officially embarked on the road of cultivation. "You asked me why I'm cultivating. At first, I wasn't clear about it, but now, I am clear that the heavens and the earth are unfair. Since the heavens and the earth are unfair, I am going to destroy the heavens and destroy the earth to create a new world for the world." [Close]

Author : Serge Tabachnikov
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780821821718
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kvant Selecta: Combinatorics, I written by Serge Tabachnikov and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of articles translated from Russian editions of the journal "Kvant"--T.p. verso.