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Yang Xiong and the Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning in China (Hardcover)
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Yang Xiong and the Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning in China (Hardcover)
Series: American Oriental Series
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Yang Xiong (53 BC-AD 18), the Han philosophical master remarks at
one point in his Exemplary Figures, "Books are as sexy as women."
Modern readers may frown at a comparison they regard as less than
apt. Yang was supremely aware, however, of longstanding traditions,
ascribed both to the sages and to the Classics, contrasting the
unusual strength of the basic drives for food and sex with the
general weakness of the acquired inclinations toward moral
behaviour. To say that "books are as sexy as women" was to make
bold to add to those traditions, adopting the manner of a sage;
also to elevate the value of certain texts, at least, to the level
morality itself, insofar as they represented acquired tastes
leading to the most desirable aspects of civilized life.
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