Hawai'i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture

Victor H. Mair, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, Paul R. Goldin

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Year: 2005
• eBook ISBN: 9780824852351
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Asian American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

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Table of contents

• Contents
• Contributors
• Historical chronology
• Preface
• Terms and Abbreviations
• A Note on the Transcription and Translation of the Titles of Chinese Texts
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction:A Constantly Shifting Mosaic of Peoples and Cultures
• 1.Shang Dynasty Oracle-Bone Inscriptions
• 2. Shang and Zhou Ritual Bronze Inscriptions
• 3. Astronomy in Early Chinese Sources
• 4. Milfoil-Divination
• 5. Heaven’s Mandate
• 6.The Odes
• 7.Confucius and the Birth of Chinese Philosophy
• 8.The Challenge of Mo Zi
• 9.Mencius's Defense of Confucianism
• 10. The Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, and Five Forms of Conduct
• 11. The World of the Zuozhuan
• 12. The Tradition of the Daode jing
• 13. Zhuang Zi
• 14. The Paradoxes of Hui Shi and Others
• 15. The Lyrics of Chu and the Aesthetic of Shamanism
• 16. Filial Piety
• 17. The Methods of War of Sun Wu and Sun Bin
• 18. Xun Zi and the Confucian Way
• 19. Early Discussions of Music and Literature
• 20. Vestments of Mourning
• 21. Han Fei Zi and His Antecedents
• 22. Anecdotes from the Warring States
• 23. The Laws of Qin before the Empire
• 24. The Rise and Fall of the Qin Empire
• 25. Huang-Lao
• 26. The Five Phases
• 27. The Xiongnu, Raiders from the Steppe
• 28. Sima Qian, “Account of the Legendary Physician Bian Que”
• 29. Sima Qian, “Letter to Ren An”
• 30. The Rationalism of Wang Chong
• 31. Admonitions for Women
• 32. Zhang Heng, “Western Metropolis Rhapsody”
• 33. Scripture on Great Peace (Taiping jing )
• 34. Cao Pi, “A Discourse on Literature”
• 35. Legends of Confucius
• 36. Medicines from The Divine Husbandman’s Canon of Materia Medica
• 37. Huangfu Mi, Preface to and Biographies from Accounts of High-minded Men
• 38. The Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove
• 39. Lu Bao, “On the Money God”
• 40. Xie Lingyun, Preface to Record of Excursions to Famous Mountains
• 41. Fan Ye, Preface to “Accounts of Disengaged Persons”
• 42. Buddhism and Language in Early-Medieval China
• 43. Buddhism and Indigenous Chinese Culture
• 44. Early-Medieval Stories of Filial Piety
• 45. The Elevation of Belles Lettres
• 46. Legends of The Original Vow of the Bodhisattva of the Earth Sanctuary
• 47. Selections from the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
• 48. Sima Guang, “The Battle of Mang Mountain”
• 49. “The Tale of Master Yuan of Mount Lu”
• 50. Tang Poems as Vehicles for Ideas
• 51. Dou Yi, a Mid-Tang Businessman
• 52. Han Yu, “A Memorial on the Relic of the Buddha”
• 53. Han Yu, “The Original Way”
• 54. The First Recorded Cinderella Story
• 55. Late-Tang Foreign Relations: The Uyghur Crisis
• 56. Political and Economic Problems concerning Buddhism
• 57. Guo Xi (attrib.), “Advice on Landscape”
• 58. Su Shi, “Parable of the Sun”
• 59. Zhu Qiqian, “A Song-Dynasty Silk-tapestry Bag with Strap”
• 60. Fang Lüe, “Inscription for the Temple of Auspicious Response”
• 61. The Discovery of Crystallized Sugar
• 62. Recollections of the Northern Song Capital
• 63. Zhang Jiucheng’s Explanation of Zhang Zai’s “Western Inscription”
• 64. Zhu Xi, Introduction to the Redacted Centrality and Commonality
• 65. Dragons, Tigers, and Elixirs: Alchemy in Medieval China
• 66. The Autobiographical Sermon of Zuqin
• 67. Vernacular Paraphrases of the Classics for the Mongol Rulers
• 68. Yuan-period Medical Cases
• 69. Ni Zan, Cloud Forest Hall Collection of Rules for Drinking and Eating
• 70. Tang Shi, “Lament for a Song Girl,” Four Stanzas
• 71. Wang Yangming, “Inquiry on the Great Learning ”
• 72. In Praise of Martyrs: Widow-Suicide in Late-Imperial China
• 73. Lu Xixing (attrib.), Romance of the Investiture of the Gods
• 74. Imperial Preface to the Revised Edition of the Collected Statutes of the Ming
• 75. Schools and Civil Service in the Ming Dynasty
• 76. Accounts of Bengal in Extensive Records on Four Foreign Lands
• 77. Chen Zongyou, Exposition of the Original Shaolin Staff Method
• 78. Li Yu, “A Handful of Snow”
• 79. Shen Cheng, “A Requiem for My Daughter Zhen”
• 80. Zhang Maozi, A Record of Life beyond My Due
• 81. Feng Menglong, Preface to the Mountain Songs
• 82. Fang Yizhi, Introduction to Notes on the Principle of Things
• 83. Gu Yanwu, Preface to Five Treatises on Phonology
• 84. Yu Yonghe, Small Sea Travelogue (Excerpts)
• 85. Miao Albums
• 86. Yuan Mei, Champion of Individual Taste
• 87. Gesar of Ling
• 88. To Hell and Back: A Nineteenth-century Fable
• 89. Biographies of Exemplary Women
• 90. Kang Youwei, “An Investigation into the Reforms of Confucius”
• 91. Lu Xun, An Outsider’s Chats about Written Language
• 92. Xu Bing, “The Living Word”
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• Photographic Credits
• Index