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Author Allan, Sarah, author.

Title Buried ideas : legends of abdication and ideal government in early Chinese bamboo-slip manuscripts / Sarah Allan.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 372 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Summary "Four Warring States texts discovered during the late twentieth-century challenge longstanding understandings of Chinese intellectual history. The discovery of previously unknown philosophical texts from the Axial Age is revolutionizing our understanding of Chinese intellectual history. Buried Ideas presents and discusses four texts found on brush-written slips of bamboo and their seemingly unprecedented political philosophy. Written in the regional script of Chu during the Warring States period (475-221 BCE), all of the works discuss Yao's abdication to Shun and are related to but differ significantly from the core texts of the classical period, such as the Mencius and Zhuangzi. Notably, these works evince an unusually meritocratic stance, and two even advocate abdication over hereditary succession as a political ideal. Sarah Allan includes full English translations and her own modern-character editions of the four works examined: Tang Yú zhi dao, Zi Gao, Rongchengshi, and Bao xun. In addition, she provides an introduction to Chu-script bamboo-slip manuscripts and the complex issues inherent in deciphering them"--Publisher's website.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents History and historical legend -- The Chu-script bamboo-slip manuscripts -- Advocating abdication : Tang Yú Zhi Dao, "The way of Tang Yao and Yú Shun" -- Tang Yú Zhi Dao : translation and Chinese edition -- The Zigao and the nature of early Confucianism -- Zigao : translation and Chinese edition -- Rongchengshi : abdication and utopian vision -- Rongchengshi : translation and Chinese edition -- The Bao Xun : obtaining the center to become king -- Bao Xun : translation and Chinese edition -- Afterthoughts.
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Language Texts written by and large in English, but occassionally in Chinese.
Subject Warring States (China : 403-221 B.C.)
China -- History -- Warring States, 403-221 B.C. -- Sources.
China -- Politics and government -- To 221 B.C. -- Sources.
China.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term To 221 B.C
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject China -- Kings and rulers -- Abdication -- History -- Sources.
Kings and rulers.
Abdication.
History.
Ideals (Philosophy) -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources.
Ideals (Philosophy)
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Merit (Ethics) -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources.
Merit (Ethics)
Political science -- China -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources.
Political science.
China -- Intellectual life -- To 221 B.C. -- Sources.
Intellectual life.
Manuscripts, Chinese.
Manuscripts, Chinese.
Chinese language -- To 600 -- Texts.
Chinese language.
Chronological Term To 600
Genre/Form Texts.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Allan, Sarah. Buried ideas. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015] 9781438457772 (DLC) 2014041449 (OCoLC)908715499
ISBN 9781438457796 (electronic book)
1438457790 (electronic book)
9781438457772 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1438457774 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781438457789
1438457782
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