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Title Huainanzi and textual production in early China / edited by Sarah A. Queen and Michael Puett.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in the history of Chinese texts, 1877-9425 ; volume 5
Studies in the history of Chinese texts ; v. 5.
Summary The Han dynasty Huainanzi is a compendium of knowledge. This edited volume follows a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how and why the Huainanzi was produced and how we should interpret the work.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-391) and index.
Contents Introduction / Sarah A. Queen and Michael Puett -- Part One. Authorship and textual formation -- Root-branches structuralism in the Huainanzi / Andrew Meyer -- Daoist inner cultivation thought and the textual structure of the Huainanzi / Harold D. Roth -- Representations of Confucius in the Huainanzi / Sarah A. Queen -- Creating a book and performing it : the "Yao Lue" chapter of the Huainanzi as a Western Han Fu / Martin Kern -- Part Two. Knowledge and rhetoric -- Tool metaphors in the Huainanzi and other early texts / John S. Major -- The Huainanzi's "Heavenly Patterns" and the Shiji's "Treatise on the celestial offices" : what's the difference? / David W. Pankenier -- A note on logical connectives in the Huainanzi / Michael Nylan -- Part Three. Audience and reception -- Sages, creation, and the end of history in the Huainanzi / Michael Puett -- The Liu clan's "Flesh and Bone" : the foundation of Liu An's vision of empire / Judson B. Murray -- The discourse about lords (zhuhou) in the Huainanzi / Griet Vankeerberghen -- Breaking through Heaven's glass ceiling : the significance of the commoner woman of Qi in the "Lan Ming" chapter of the Huananzi / Anne Behnke Kinney.
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Subject Huainanzi -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Huainanzi.
Huainanzi -- Criticism, Textual.
Criticism, Textual.
Huainanzi -- Influence.
China -- Intellectual life -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D.
Learning and scholarship -- China -- History -- To 1500.
Learning and scholarship.
China.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Chinese literature -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D. -- History and criticism.
Chinese literature -- Authorship.
Chinese literature.
Authorship.
Philosophy, Chinese -- History -- To 1500.
Philosophy, Chinese.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Queen, Sarah A. (Sarah Ann), editor.
Puett, Michael, 1964- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Queen, Sarah. Huainanzi and Textual Production in Early China. Brill 2014 1306689023
ISBN 9789004265325 (electronic book)
9004265325 (electronic book)
1306689023 (electronic book)
9781306689021 (electronic book)
9789004265035 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
9004265031 (hardback ; acid-free paper)