Written by the Han philosopher Xu Gan (A.D. 170-217), Balanced
Discourses is an inquiry into the causes of political breakdown. It
provides a unique contemporary account of the social, intellectual,
and cosmological factors that Xu Gan identified as having
precipitated the demise of the Han order. This edition of Zhonglun
(or Balanced Discourses) contains the original Chinese text with
annotations and, on facing pages, an English translation also
accompanied by annotations. This collection of essays spans a range
of topics, from Confucian cultivation to calendrical calculation.
Xu's perspectives are of not only historical but also philosophical
interest, for they reveal his belief in a special correlative bond
that should exist between names and actualities and his
understanding of what happens when that bond is broken. The
translator, John Makeham, argues in his introduction that the
essays display the same quality of balance that Xu Gan sees as
essential to social and political equilibrium.
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