Chapter 4 The Ice of Memory and the Fires of Forgetfulness

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Historiographical and Political Narratives
7. Cultural Amnesia and Commentarial Retrofitting 25
8. Elision and Narration 49
9. Shaping the Historian’s Project 71
10. The Ice of Memory and the Fires of Forgetfulness 97
11. Philosophical Writings
12. The Daode jing’s Forgotten Forebear 119
13. So Comfortable You’ll Forget You Have Them On 153
14. The Practice of Erasing Traces in the Huainanzi 181
15. The Oblivious against the Doctor 215
16. Wang Bi and the Hermeneutics of Actualization 245
17. Ritual and Literary Texts
18. Embodied Memory and Natural Forgetting in Early Chinese Ritual Theory 271
19. Exile and Return 297
20. Lost in Where We Are 327
21. Contributors 349
22. Index 353