Essays on Chinese Civilization

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Collection of twenty-one articles with some of the major writings by one of the United States' leading Sinologists, Derk Bodde. Contents Preface Chronology of Chinese Dynasties Foreword Introduction: The Essays Reassessed The Formation of Chinese Culture 1. Introduction to the History of China 2. The Chinese Language as a Factor in Chinese Cultural Continuity (1942) 3. Myths of Ancient China (1961) 4. Feudalism in China (1956) 5. Dominant Ideas in the Formation of Chinese Culture (1942) Man in Society 6. Types of Chinese Categorical Thinking (1939) 7. Authority and Law in Ancient China (1954) 8. Basic Concepts of Chinese Law: the Genesis and Evolution of Legal Thought in Traditional China (1963) 9. Prison Life in Eighteenth Century Peking (1969) 10. Henry A. Wallace and the Ever-normal Granary (1946) Man in the Cosmos 11. Harmony and Conflict in Chinese Philosophy (1953) 12. Chinese "Laws of Nature": a Reconsideration (1979) 13. The Chinese View of Immortality: Its Expression by Chu Hsi and Its Relationship to Buddhist Thought (1942) 14. Some Chinese Tales of the Supernatural: Kan Pao and His Sou-shen chi (1942) 15. The Chinese Cosmic Magic Known as Watching for the Ethers(1959) 16. Sexual Sympathetic Magic in Han China (1964) Text Studies 17. A Perplexing Passage in the Confucian Analects (1933) 18. Two New Translations of Lao Tzu (1954) 19. On Translating Chinese Philosophic Terms (1955) 20. Lieh-tzu and the Doves: a Problem of Dating (1959) 21. Marshes in Mencius and Elsewhere: a Lexicographical Note (1978) Bibliography of Derk Bodde Index