Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Preparation for the Afterlife in Ancient China 13
6. Ascend to Heaven or Stay in the Tomb? 37
7. Concepts of Death and the Afterlife Reflected in Newly Discovered Tomb Objects and Texts from Han China 85
8. War, Death, and Ancient Chinese Cosmology 117
9. Death and Dying in the Analects 137
10. I Know not “Seems” 153
11. Allotment and Death in Early China 177
12. Death in the Zhuangzi 191
13. Sages, the Past, and the Dead 225
14. Linji and William James on Mortality 249
15. Death as the Ultimate Concern in the Neo-Confucian Tradition 271
16. Contributors 297
17. Index 301