You are What Eats at You: Anxiety in Medieval Chinese Divinatory and Medical Manuals

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. You are What Eats at You: Anxiety in Medieval Chinese Divinatory and Medical Manuals 19
6. Can We Find Hope in Ancient Greek Philosophy? Elpis in Plato and Aristotle 41
7. A Brief History of Daring 75
8. Anger as an Ethnographic Trope: Changing Views from Aristotle to Seneca 143
9. Hatred and Revenge in Ancient China During the Qin and Han (221 B.C.-220 A.D.): The Expression of Emotions and the Conflict between Ritual and Law 169
10. Tragic Emotions – Then and Now 193
11. Analyzing the Emotions across Three Ancient Cultures: Greece, India, China 211
12. Gender, Social Hierarchies, and Negative Emotions in Liu Xiang’s Biographies of Women 279
13. Emotions, Measurement and the Technê of Practical Wisdom in Xúnzǐ’s Ethical Theory 303
14. Contributors 327
15. Index 329