Essays on Chinese Civilization

Derk Bodde

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Essays on Chinese Civilization

Derk Bodde
Edited by: Charles Leblanc and Charles Leblanc

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2014

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This collection of twenty-one articles represents some of the major writings by one of the United States' leading Sinologists, Derk Bodde.

Originally published in 1982.

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Contents
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Preface
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Chronology of Chinese Dynasties
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Foreword
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Dorothy V. Borei and Charles Le Blanc

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Introduction: The Essays Reassessed
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The Formation of Chinese Culture
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1. Introduction to the History of China
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2. The Chinese Language as a Factor in Chinese Cultural Continuity (1942)
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3. Myths of Ancient China (1961)
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4. Feudalism in China (1956)
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5. Dominant Ideas in the Formation of Chinese Culture (1942)
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Man in Society
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6. Types of Chinese Categorical Thinking (1939)
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7. Authority and Law in Ancient China (1954)
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8. Basic Concepts of Chinese Law: the Genesis and Evolution of Legal Thought in Traditional China (1963)
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9. Prison Life in Eighteenth Century Peking (1969)
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10. Henry A. Wallace and the Ever-normal Granary (1946)
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Man in the Cosmos
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11. Harmony and Conflict in Chinese Philosophy (1953)
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12. Chinese "Laws of Nature": a Reconsideration (1979)
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13. The Chinese View of Immortality: Its Expression by Chu Hsi and Its Relationship to Buddhist Thought (1942)
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14. Some Chinese Tales of the Supernatural: Kan Pao and His Sou-shen chi (1942)
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15. The Chinese Cosmic Magic Known as Watching for the Ethers(1959)
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16. Sexual Sympathetic Magic in Han China (1964)
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Text Studies
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17. A Perplexing Passage in the Confucian Analects (1933)
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18. Two New Translations of Lao Tzu (1954)
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19. On Translating Chinese Philosophic Terms (1955)
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20. Lieh-tzu and the Doves: a Problem of Dating (1959)
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21. Marshes in Mencius and Elsewhere: a Lexicographical Note (1978)
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Bibliography of Derk Bodde
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Index
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Keywords for this book

Confucianism; Chinese philosophy; Confucius; Taoism; Buddhism; Ancient China; Chinese mythology; Legalism (Chinese philosophy); Chinese culture; Chinese literature; Chinese law; Chinese classics; Chinese Buddhism; Science and Civilisation in China; Mencius; Chinese historiography; Agriculture (Chinese mythology); China proper; Feudalism; Sinology; Feudalism in China; Classical Chinese; Chinese art; Neo-Confucianism; Written Chinese; Emperor of China; Religion in China; Chinese folklore; Chinese painting; The Chinese Way; David Hawkes (sinologist); China; Chinese characters; Han dynasty; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Chinese poetry; Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio; Yin and yang; Zhuang Zhou; The China Quarterly; Tian; The Mandarins; Chinese sovereign; Ming dynasty; Sui dynasty; Qing dynasty; Yellow Emperor; Richard Wilhelm (sinologist); Cao Xueqin; Tao Te Ching; Imperial examination; Qin dynasty; Transliteration of Chinese; Huang-Lao; Wang Mang; Han Yu; Qianlong Emperor; Zhou dynasty; Warring States period; Shaanxi; Old Chinese; Tang dynasty; Xiongnu; Nine Provinces (China); Disciples of Confucius; Song dynasty; Mencius (book); Zhu Xi; Xuanzang; Peking Man

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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research

Essays on Chinese Civilization

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About this book

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Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Chronology of Chinese Dynasties

Foreword

Introduction: The Essays Reassessed

1. Introduction to the History of China

2. The Chinese Language as a Factor in Chinese Cultural Continuity (1942)

3. Myths of Ancient China (1961)

4. Feudalism in China (1956)

5. Dominant Ideas in the Formation of Chinese Culture (1942)

6. Types of Chinese Categorical Thinking (1939)

7. Authority and Law in Ancient China (1954)

8. Basic Concepts of Chinese Law: the Genesis and Evolution of Legal Thought in Traditional China (1963)

9. Prison Life in Eighteenth Century Peking (1969)

10. Henry A. Wallace and the Ever-normal Granary (1946)

11. Harmony and Conflict in Chinese Philosophy (1953)

12. Chinese "Laws of Nature": a Reconsideration (1979)

13. The Chinese View of Immortality: Its Expression by Chu Hsi and Its Relationship to Buddhist Thought (1942)

14. Some Chinese Tales of the Supernatural: Kan Pao and His Sou-shen chi (1942)

15. The Chinese Cosmic Magic Known as Watching for the Ethers(1959)

16. Sexual Sympathetic Magic in Han China (1964)

17. A Perplexing Passage in the Confucian Analects (1933)

18. Two New Translations of Lao Tzu (1954)

19. On Translating Chinese Philosophic Terms (1955)

20. Lieh-tzu and the Doves: a Problem of Dating (1959)

21. Marshes in Mencius and Elsewhere: a Lexicographical Note (1978)

Bibliography of Derk Bodde

Index

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