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Subject(s)

• Yang, Zhu active 4th century B.C.—Sources [Browse]
• Yang, Zhu active 4th century B.C.—In literature [Browse]

Editor

• Defoort, Carine, 1961- [Browse]
• Lee, Tieng-mien [Browse]

Series

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture [More in this series]

Summary note

"Presents the most important portrayals of the Daoist master Yang Zhu throughout Chinese history, from the Warring States period until today. Due to the striking scarcity of reliable textual testimony regarding his life and thought, all these portrayals are to a large extent inspired by their own historical contexts: Mencius's criticism in the late Warring States, the creation of a Confucian orthodoxy during the imperial era, and the establishment of a Chinese philosophy in the Republic. This volume adopts a historical approach, tracing the most important portrayals of Yang Zhu in their own contexts and mutual connections. It yields new insights not only into the figure of Yang Zhu, but also into the stages of China's intellectual history. Scarcity of reliable textual support is, to varying degrees, a common predicament in the study of ancient Chinese masters, but the case of Yang Zhu is particularly illuminating. The remarkable dearth of textual material represents the almost "nothing" out of which early Chinese philosophers such as Yang Zhu have been fruitfully "created.""-- Provided by publisher

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Being and Becoming: The Many Portrayals of Yang Zhu / Carine Defoort and Ting-mien Lee
• Five Pre-Republican Portrayals of Yang Zhu / Carine Defoort
• Yang Zhu and Mozi as Critics of Unification Warfare / Ting-mien Lee
• Beyond Mencius's Portrayal of Yang Zhu and Mozi: A Zhuangzian-Han Feizian Yang-Mo / Yao-cheng Chang
• Deconstructing "Hedonism": Understanding Yang Zhu in the Liezi / Erica Brindley - Yang Zhu's Role in Tang-Song Proto-daotong Discourse / John Makeham
• Yang Zhu's Role in the Construction of Zhu Xi's Daotong / John Makeham
• Plucking Hairs and Shaving Heads: Li Zhi's Repudiation of Yang Zhu / Esther Sunkyung Klein
• The Birth of the Image of the "Egoist-Epicurean Philosopher" Yang Zhu during the Meiji Period / Masayuki Sato
• Struggling between Tradition and Modernity: Liang Qichao's Portrayal of Yang Zhu in the Early Twentieth Century / Xiaowei Wan
• Feng Youlan and Yang Zhu: The Shifting Discursive Space (1920-80) / Xiaoqing Diana Lin
• Three Dimensions of Yang Zhu Research in the Twentieth Century: Hu Shi, Meng Wentong, and Guan Feng / Feng Cao.

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ISBN

• 1438490399
• 9781438490397

OCLC

1310621975

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