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Patterns of Disengagement - The Practice and Portrayal of Reclusion in Early Medieval China (Hardcover): Alan J. Berkowitz Patterns of Disengagement - The Practice and Portrayal of Reclusion in Early Medieval China (Hardcover)
Alan J. Berkowitz
R2,212 Discovery Miles 22 120 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

While the customary path to achievement in traditional China was through service to the state, from the earliest times certain individuals had been acclaimed for repudiating an official career. This book traces the formulation and portrayal of the practice of reclusion in China from the earliest times through the sixth century, by which time reclusion had taken on its enduring character.
Those men who decided to withhold their service to state governance fit the dictum from the "Book of Changes" of a man who "does not serve a king or lord; he elevates in priority his own affairs." This characterization came to serve as a byword of individual and voluntary withdrawal, the image of the man whose lofty resolve could not be humbled for service to a temporal ruler. Men who eschewed official appointments in favor of pursuing their own personal ideals were known by such appellations as "hidden men" ("yinshi"), "disengaged persons" ("yimin"), "high-minded men" ("gaoshi"), and "scholars-at-home" ("chushi").
What distinguished these men was a particular strength of character that underlay their conduct: they received approbation for maintaining their resolve, their mettle, their integrity, and their moral and personal values in the face of adversity, threat, or temptation. This book reveals that those who opted for a life of reclusion had a variety of motivations for their decisions and conducted widely divergent ways of life. The lives of these men epitomize the distinctive nature of substantive reclusion, differentiating them from those of the intelligentsia who, on occasion, voiced their desire for disengagement or for retreat, but who nevertheless found or retained their places in government office. Throughout, the author places the recluse and reclusion within the social, political, intellectual, religious, and literary contexts of the times.

On the Asymptotic Series Expansion of the Motion of a Charged Particle in Slowly-Varying Fields (Hardcover): Jerome Berkowitz,... On the Asymptotic Series Expansion of the Motion of a Charged Particle in Slowly-Varying Fields (Hardcover)
Jerome Berkowitz, Clifford S Gardner, J. Berkowitz
R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Sherwood Progress Report no.5 (January 1961 - December 1961) (Hardcover): J. Berkowitz Sherwood Progress Report no.5 (January 1961 - December 1961) (Hardcover)
J. Berkowitz
R662 Discovery Miles 6 620 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Partial Differential Equations (Paperback): Peter D. Lax, J. Berkowitz, Avron Douglis Partial Differential Equations (Paperback)
Peter D. Lax, J. Berkowitz, Avron Douglis
R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Partial Differential Equations (Hardcover): Peter D. Lax, J. Berkowitz, Avron Douglis Partial Differential Equations (Hardcover)
Peter D. Lax, J. Berkowitz, Avron Douglis
R1,177 Discovery Miles 11 770 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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