Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Chronology of Chinese Dynasties xi
5. Foreword xiii
6. Introduction: The Essays Reassessed 1
7. The Formation of Chinese Culture
8. 1. Introduction to the History of China 39
9. 2. The Chinese Language as a Factor in Chinese Cultural Continuity (1942) 43
10. 3. Myths of Ancient China (1961) 45
11. 4. Feudalism in China (1956) 85
12. 5. Dominant Ideas in the Formation of Chinese Culture (1942) 132
13. Man in Society
14. 6. Types of Chinese Categorical Thinking (1939) 141
15. 7. Authority and Law in Ancient China (1954) 161
16. 8. Basic Concepts of Chinese Law: the Genesis and Evolution of Legal Thought in Traditional China (1963) 171
17. 9. Prison Life in Eighteenth Century Peking (1969) 195
18. 10. Henry A. Wallace and the Ever-normal Granary (1946) 218
19. Man in the Cosmos
20. 11. Harmony and Conflict in Chinese Philosophy (1953) 237
21. 12. Chinese "Laws of Nature": a Reconsideration (1979) 299
22. 13. The Chinese View of Immortality: Its Expression by Chu Hsi and Its Relationship to Buddhist Thought (1942) 316
23. 14. Some Chinese Tales of the Supernatural: Kan Pao and His Sou-shen chi (1942) 331
24. 15. The Chinese Cosmic Magic Known as Watching for the Ethers(1959) 351
25. 16. Sexual Sympathetic Magic in Han China (1964) 373
26. Text Studies
27. 17. A Perplexing Passage in the Confucian Analects (1933) 383
28. 18. Two New Translations of Lao Tzu (1954) 388
29. 19. On Translating Chinese Philosophic Terms (1955) 395
30. 20. Lieh-tzu and the Doves: a Problem of Dating (1959) 409
31. 21. Marshes in Mencius and Elsewhere: a Lexicographical Note (1978) 416
32. Bibliography of Derk Bodde 427
33. Index 439