This innovative book explores the preconditions necessary for intercultural and comparative
philosophy. Philosophical practices that involve at least two different traditions with no …

Theories of Truth in Chinese Philosophy deals with debates surrounding the concept of truth
in early Chinese thought, from the earliest periods through to the Han dynasty. Alexus …

Challenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth-century Sinologists that early China
experienced a language crisis. Jane Geaney argues that early Chinese conceptions of …

This unique book explores how graphocentrism affects Chinese education and culture. It
moves away from the contemporary educational practices in China of following the Western …

The “School of Names”(ming jia) is the traditional Chinese label for a diverse group of
Warring States (479–221 BCE) thinkers who shared an interest in language, disputation …

It is commonplace to characterize the philosophy of Early China as attuned to
interconnections and informed by the implications of situations and environments. This …

Jade can be smashed but its whiteness cannot be changed; bamboo can be burned, but its
joints cannot be destroyed. Although my body will perish, my name will be handed down on …

This dissertation is a study of the different kinds of writing excavated in the 1970s from the
three Western Han dynasty (202 BCE-9 CE) tombs at Mawangdui 馬王堆, including …

Az ókori kínai történeti szövegekben és bölcseleti írásokban, így a Mengzi-ben is, a tianming
天命(vagy „alakváltozata”, a ming 命) kitüntetett szerepkörben van. Az „Ég rendelése”(天命) …

Many different and contradictory claims have been made about the political dimensions (or
lack thereof) of the ancient Chinese text known as the Zhuangzi 莊子. The two main …