Balanced discourses = Zhong lun / Xu Gan ; English translation by John Makeham ; introductions by Dang Shengyuan and John Makeham
Balanced discourses = 中論 / Xu Gan ; English translation by John Makeham ; introductions by Dang Shengyuan and John Makeham
- Bib ID:
- 5754577
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Xu, Gan, 171-218
- Uniform Title:
- Zhong lun. English and 中論. English
- Edition:
- Bilingual ed.
- Description:
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- New Haven : Yale University Press ; Beijing : Foreign Languages Press, c2002
- xl, 366 p. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780300092011
- 0300092016
- Series:
- Classical library of Chinese literature and thought.
- Summary:
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"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 dynasty. This edition of Zhonglun (Balanced Discourses) contains the original Chinese text with annotations and, on facing pages, an English translation also with 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction / Dang Shengyuan
- Introduction / John Makeham
- 1. Ordering Learning
- 2. Establishing Models and Exemplars
- 3. Cultivating the Fundamental
- 4. The Way of Humility
- 5. Valuing Proof
- 6. Valuing Words
- 7. The Fundamental Principles of the Arts
- 8. An Examination of Disputation
- 9. Wisdom and Deeds
- 10. Titles and Emoluments
- 11. Examining Falsity
- 12. A Rebuke of Social Connections
- 13. Astronomical Systems
- 14. Distinguishing Between Premature Death and Longevity
- 15. Attend to the Fundamentals
- 16. Examining the Selection of High Officials
- 17. Be Careful of the Advice One Follows
- 18. Destruction of the State
- 19. Rewards and Punishments
- 20. Population Figures
- 21. Reinstitute the Three-Year Mourning Period
- 22. Regulate the Allotment of Corvee Laborers.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-355) and index.
- Parallel text in Chinese and English.
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Chinese
- Other authors/contributors:
- Makeham, John, 1955-
- Also Titled:
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- Zhong lun
- 中論
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2002
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