1. Between the Heavenly and the Human

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Author’s preface ix
4. Editorial Note xi
5. List of Abbreviations xxi
6. Chronology of Dynasties xxiii
7. 1. Between the Heavenly and the Human 1
8. 2. Life and Immortality in the Mind of Han China 20
9. 3. “O Soul, Come Back!”: A Study in the Changing Conceptions of the Soul and Afterlife in Pre-Buddhist China 58
10. 4. New Evidence on the Early Chinese Conception of Afterlife 85
11. 5. Food in Chinese Culture 91
12. 6. The Seating Order at the Hong Men Banquet 122
13. 7. Individualism and the Neo-Daoist Movement in Wei-Jin China 134
14. 8. Intellectual Breakthroughs in the Tang- Song Transition 166
15. 9. Morality and Knowledge in Zhu Xi ’s Philosophical System 181
16. 10. Confucian Ethics and Capitalism 208
17. 11. Business Culture and Chinese Traditions: Toward a Study of the Evolution of Merchant Culture in Chinese History 222
18. 12. Reorientation of Confucian Social Thought in the Age of Wang Yangming 273
19. 13. The Intellectual World of Jiao Hong Revisited 321
20. 14. Toward an Interpretation of the Intellectual Transition in Seventeenth- Century China 355
21. Acknowledgments 375
22. Appendix 377
23. Index 383