Hawai'i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture

Description

The Hawai'i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture is a collection of more than ninety primary sources--all but a few of which were translated specifically for this volume--of cultural significance from the Bronze Age to the turn of the twentieth century. They take into account virtually every aspect of traditional culture, including sources from the non-Sinitic ethnic minorities. 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