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This book is a collection of English articles by Pan Guangdan, one
of China's most distinguished sociologists and eugenicists and also
a renowned expert in education. Pan is a prolific scholar, whose
collected works number some fourteen volumes. Pan's daughters Pan
Naigu, Pan Naimu and Pan Naihe-all scholars of anthropology and
sociology-began editing their father's published works and
surviving manuscripts around 1978. The collected articles, written
between 1923 and 1945, are representative of Pan's insights on
sociobiology, ethnology and eugenics, covering topics such as
Christianity, opium, domestic war and China-Japan relations. The
title of the book is taken from the fascinating two-part article
"Socio-biological Implications in Confucianism", which essentially
reworks Confucius as a kind of "forefather" of socio-biological and
eugenic thinking, showing Pan's promotion of "traditional" values.
These articles, mostly published in Chinese Students' Monthly and
The China Critic, offer an excellent point of entry into Pan's
ideas on population and eugenics, his polemics on family and
marriage, and his intellectual positioning and self-fashioning.
This collection is of great reference value, allowing readers to
gain an overall and in-depth understanding of the development of
Pan's academic thought, and to explore the spiritual world of the
scholars brought together by The China Critic who were dedicated to
rebuilding the Chinese culture and bridging the West and the East.
Since the 1970s, the influence of oriental philosophy, in
particular the Buddhist tradition, in the field of psychotherapy
has been quite profound. Taoism has not had the same impact on
modern psychotherapeutic models. Yet, as early as 1936, Alva
LaSalle Kitselman who was, at that time, studying oriental
languages at Stanford University, with a particular emphasis on
Sanskrit, created his own version of the classic text of the Taoist
tradition - the book of Lao Tzu entitled the Tao Teh King. His
version of this classic was, as he said, a restatement rather than
being a new translation from the ancient Chinese. After its
publication, and through a chance encounter with one of the
librarians at Stanford, he began to realise that Taoism and Taoist
philosophy could be used as a form of therapy, specifically in the
form he called 'non-directiveness' or 'non-directive therapy.' In
the 1950s Kitsleman published an audio lecture on his early
experiences using the Tao Teh King entitled 'An Ancient Therapy'.
In the lecture he compared and contrasted his application of Taoist
philosophy in psychotherapy with the 'client centred therapy'
approach of Carl R. Rogers. This new publication of Kitselman's
version of the Tao Teh King and the story of his discovery will
hopefully ignite a real interest in combining the wisdom of this
classic Taoist text with modern psychotherapeutic methodologies. A.
L. 'Beau' Kitselman was a remarkable man, a genius whose interests
ranged from mathematics, science and computer programming to
exploring the potential of the human mind.
Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but
most studies still focus on the West. This volume breaks new ground
by comparatively exploring developments in five areas of the world,
some of which were hitherto situated at the margins of
international scholarly discussions: Africa, the Arab World, East
Asia, South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. In theoretical
terms, the book examines three key dimensions of modern secularity:
historical pathways, cultural meanings, and global entanglements of
secular formations. The contributions show how differences in these
dimensions are linked to specific histories of religious and ethnic
diversity, processes of state-formation and nation-building. They
also reveal how secularities are critically shaped through
civilizational encounters, processes of globalization, colonial
conquest, and missionary movements, and how entanglements between
different territorially grounded notions of secularity or between
local cultures and transnational secular arenas unfold over time.
Notable not only for its comprehensiveness but also for its
inclusion of the Chinese pictograms, this complete text of the
*Analects* of the greatest philosopher of Chinese history is a
must-own volume for any student of Confucius (551Bi479 Be. From the
disposition of a land's rulers to the value of prayer, the thoughts
of Confucius have powerfully shaped the moral life and political
structures of Asian nations, and influenced the direction of the
Western world as well. Here, Legge offers an enlightening
introduction to the *Analects,* copious notes that place the
sayings in cultural context, and much more assistance for the lay
reader in understanding the depth of Confucius' wisdom. This
three-in-one volume, originally published in this form in 1893,
also includes *The Great Learning,* the Confucian illustration of
illustrious virtue, and *The Doctrine of the Mean,* the thinker's
explication of the path of duty. Scottish scholar JAMES LEGGE
(1815-1897) was the first professor of Chinese language and
literature at Oxford University, serving from 1876 to 1897. Among
his many books are The Life and Teaching of Confucius (1867), The
Religions of China (1880), and the 50-volume Sacred Books of the
East (1879-1891).
An exploration of the rich complexity of the worship of the deity
Inari in contemporary Japan. The work covers institutional and
popular power in religion, the personal meaningfulness of religious
figures and the communicative styles that preserve homogeneity in
the face of factionalism.
This monograph takes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural
approach to 20th and 21st -century Canadian Daoist poetry, fiction
and criticism in comparative, innovative and engaging ways. Of
particular interest are the authors' refreshing insights into such
holistic and topical issues as the globalization of concepts of the
Dao, the Yin/Yang, the Heaven-Earth-Humanity triad, the Four
Greats, Five Phases, Non-action and so on, as expressed in Canadian
literature and criticism - which produces Canadian-constructed
Daoist poetics, ethics and aesthetics. Readers will come to
understand and appreciate the social and ecological significance
of, formal innovations, moral sensitivity, aesthetic principles and
ideological complexity in Canadian-Daoist works.
Though a minority religion in Vietnam, Christianity has been a
significant presence in the country since its arrival in the
sixteenth-century. Anh Q. Tran offers the first English translation
of the recently discovered 1752 manuscript Tam Giao Ch(u V.ong (The
Errors of the Three Religions). Structured as a dialogue between a
Christian priest and a Confucian scholar, this anonymously authored
manuscript paints a rich picture of the three traditional
Vietnamese religions: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism. The work
explains and evaluates several religious beliefs, customs, and
rituals of eighteenth-century Vietnam, many of which are still in
practice today. In addition, it contains a trove of information on
the challenges and struggles that Vietnamese Christian converts had
to face in following the new faith. Besides its great historical
value for studies in Vietnamese religion, language, and culture,
Gods, Heroes, and Ancestors raises complex issues concerning the
encounter between Christianity and other religions: Christian
missions, religious pluralism, and interreligious dialogue.
Following Alan Watts' acclaimed book on Zen Buddhism The Way of
Zen, he tackles the Chinese philosophy of Tao. The Tao is the way
of man's cooperation with the natural course of the natural world.
Alan Watts takes the reader through the history of Tao and its
interpretations by key thinkers such as Lao-Tzu, author of the Tao
Te Ching. Watts goes on to demonstrate how the ancient and timeless
Chinese wisdom of Tao promotes the idea of following a life lived
according to the natural world and goes against our goal-oriented
ideas by allowing time to quiet our minds and observe the world
rather than imposing ourselves on it. By taking in some of the
lessons of Tao, we can change our attitude to the way we live.
Drawing on ancient and modern sources, Watts treats the Chinese
philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in
his classic The Way of Zen. Including an introduction to the
Chinese culture that is the foundation of the Tao, this is one of
Alan Watts' best-loved works.
"In 12 excellent essays by scholars East and West, this collection
explores the many dimensions of Heidegger's relation to Eastern
thinking.... Because of the quality of the contributions, the
eminence of the many contributors... this volume must be considered
an indispensable reference on the subject. Highly recommended."
--Choice.
This volume focuses on contemporary Confucianism, and collects
essays by famous sinologists such as Guy Alitto, John Makeham,
Tse-ki Hon and others. The content is divided into three sections -
addressing the "theory" and "practice" of contemporary
Confucianism, as well as how the two relate to each other - to
provide readers a more meaningful understanding of contemporary
Confucianism and Chinese culture. In 1921, at the height of the New
Culture Movement's iconoclastic attack on Confucius, Liang Shuming
( ) fatefully predicted that in fact the future world culture would
be Confucian. Over the nine decades that followed, Liang's
reputation and the fortunes of Confucianism in China rose and fell
together. So, readers may be interested in the question whether it
is possible that a reconstituted "Confucianism" might yet become
China's spiritual mainstream and a major constituent of world
culture.
The I Ching has influenced thinkers and artists throughout the
history of Chinese philosophy. This new, accessible translation of
the entire early text brings to life the hidden meanings and
importance of China's oldest classical texts. Complemented
throughout by insightful commentaries, the I Ching: A Critical
Translation of the Ancient Text simplifies the unique system of
hexagrams lying at the centre of the text and introduces the
cultural significance of key themes including yin and yang, gender
and ethics. As well as depicting all possible ethical situations,
this new translation shows how the hexagram figures can represent
social relationships and how the order of lines can be seen as a
natural metaphor for higher or lower social rank. Introduced by Hon
Tze-Ki, an esteemed scholar of the text, this up-to-date
translation uncovers and explains both the philosophical and
political interpretations of the text. For a better understanding
of the philosophical and cosmological underpinning the history of
Chinese philosophy, the I Ching is an invaluable starting point.
The Ch'ing scholar-thinker Tai Chen (1724-1777) was a passionate
explorer. He loved words, and his most important philosophical
treatise, the Meng Tzu tzu-I shu-cheng (An evidential study of the
meaning of terms in the Mencius), is an exhaustive search for the
meaning of the words first uttered by Mencius in the fourth century
B.C. This book by Ann-ping Chin and Mansfield Freeman is the first
complete and annotated English translation of that treatise.
Drawing on scholarship from the eighteenth century to the present,
it also includes two essays that reconstruct Tai Chen's life and
time and reinterpret his thought. Unlike most of the evidential
scholars of his day, Tai Chen was not satisfied merely with
providing reason and proof for his reading. He was interested in
the life of words as their meaning changes with the vicissitudes of
time. Tai Chen felt that the terms in the Mencius, garbled by the
Sung and Ming thinkers who had come under the influence of Buddhism
and Taoism, would no longer have made sense to Mencius himself. Key
Confucian concepts, such as "principle" and "nature," had become
"blood-less" moral constructs. Tai Chen preferred their primeval
meaning. Intellectual historians of this century have hailed him as
a progressive thinker and a social critic, but he saw himself in a
simpler role: as a reader striving to understand every word in his
text.
The classical Triad of the Chinese tradition is Heaven-Man-Earth.
Rene Guenon places this ternary in the context of universal
metaphysics by identifying Heaven with Essence and Earth with
Substance, the mediator between them being Man, whose cosmic
function is to embody spirit (Heaven) while simultaneously
spiritualizing matter (Earth). Exploring Chinese cosmology further,
Guenon sheds light on such archetypal polarities as Heaven and
Earth, Yin and Yang, Solve et Coagula, Celestial and Terrestrial
Numbers, the Square and the Compass, the Double Spiral, and the
Being and the Environment, while pointing to their synthetic unity
in terms of ternaries, such as the Three Worlds, Triple Time,
Spiritus, Anima, and Corpus, Sulfur, Mercury and Salt, and God,
Man, and Nature. Perhaps more completely than in any other work,
Guenon demonstrates in The Great Triad how any integral tradition
is both a mirror reflecting universal themes found in all other
intact traditions and an entire conceptual cosmos unto itself,
unique and incomparable.
'The body of Christ, broken for you.' These are the words almost
always shared whenever the communion bread is given. But what do
these words mean for women whose bodies have been broken by
injustice and violence? This book interweaves feminist theological
ideas, Asian spiritual traditions, and the witnesses of comfort
women - sex-slaves during World War II - to offer a new approach to
a theology of body. It examines the multi-layered meaning of the
broken body of Christ from Christological, sacramental, and
ecclesiological perspectives, and explores the centrality of body
in theological discourse.
Christian dialogic writings flourished in the Catholic missions in
late Ming China. This study focuses on the mission work of the
Italian Jesuit Giulio Aleni (Ai Rulue , 1582-1649) in Fujian and
the unique text Kouduo richao (Diary of Oral Admonitions,
1630-1640) that records the religious and intellectual
conversations among the Jesuits and local converts. By examining
the mechanisms of dialogue in Kouduo richao and other Christian
works distinguished by a certain dialogue form, the author of the
present work aims to reveal the formation of a hybrid
Christian-Confucian identity in late Ming Chinese religious
experience. By offering the new approach of dialogic hybridization,
the book not only treats dialogue as an important yet
underestimated genre in late Ming Christian literature, but it also
uncovers a self-other identity complex in the dialogic exchanges of
the Jesuits and Chinese scholars. Giulio Aleni, Kouduo richao, and
Christian-Confucian Dialogism in Late Ming Fujian is a
multi-faceted investigation of the religious, philosophical,
ethical, scientific, and artistic topics discussed among the
Jesuits and late Ming scholars. This comprehensive research echoes
what the distinguished Sinologist Erik Zurcher (1928-2008) said
about the richness and diversity of Chinese Christian texts
produced in the 17th and 18th centuries. Following Zurcher's
careful study and annotated full translation of Kouduo richao
(Monumenta Serica Monograph Series, LVI/1-2), the present work
features a set of new findings beyond the endeavours of Zurcher and
other scholars. With the key concept of Christian-Confucian
dialogism, it tells the intriguing story of Aleni's mission work
and the thriving Christian communities in late Ming Fujian.
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Tao Te Ching
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Lao Tzu; Translated by Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo; Introduction by Burton Watson
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This translation captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the
ancient original and resists the tendency toward interpretive
paraphrase found in many other editions. Along with the complete
translation, Lombardo and Addiss provide one or more key lines from
the original Chinese for each of the eighty-one sections, together
with a transliteration of the Chinese characters and a glossary
commenting on the pronunciation and meaning of each Chinese
character displayed. This greatly enhances the reader's
appreciation of how the Chinese text works and feels and the
different ways it can be translated into English.
This new 4 volume collection is an authoritative anthology
containing the best scholarship on aspects of religion in
contemporary China. The articles will focus on religious beliefs,
practices and organisations as well as on the interactive relations
between religion and other dimensions of communal, social,
political and economic life in Mainland China and overseas Chinese
communities.
Bruce Lee's daughter illuminates her father's most powerful life
philosophies, and how we can apply his teachings to our daily lives
'Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water' Bruce Lee is a
cultural icon, world renowned for his martial arts and film legacy.
But Lee was also a deeply philosophical thinker, believing that
martial arts are more than just an exercise in physical discipline
- they are a perfect metaphor for personal growth. In Be Water, My
Friend, Shannon Lee shares previously untold stories from her
father's life along with the concepts at the core of his teachings.
Each chapter reveals a lesson from Bruce Lee, expanding on the
foundation of his iconic 'be water' philosophy to reveal a path to
an enlightened way of being. This is an inspirational call to
action to consider our lives with new eyes and a testament to Lee's
unique power to ignite our imaginations and transform our lives.
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