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The Four Books: The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition
In this engaging volume, Daniel Gardner explains the way in which the Four Books -- Great Learning, Analects, Mencius, and Maintaining Perfect Balance -- have been read and understood by the Chinese since the twelfth century. Selected passages in translation are accompanied by Gardner's comments, which incorporate selections from the commentary and interpretation of the renowned Neo-Confucian thinker, Zhu Xi (1130-1200). This study provides an ideal introduction to the basic texts in the Confucian tradition from the twelfth through the twentieth centuries. It guides the reader through Zhu Xi's influential interpretation of the Four Books, showing how Zhu, through the genre of commentary, gave new coherence and meaning to these foundational texts. Since the Four Books with Zhu Xi's commentary served as the basic "textbook" for Chinese schooling and the civil service examinations for more than seven hundred years, this book illustrates as well the nature of the standard Chinese educational curriculum..
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Ethics in the Confucian Tradition: The Thought of Mengzi and Wang Yangming
A revision of the Scholars Press edition of 1990. This volume serves both as an introduction to the thought of Mengzi (Mencius) and Wang Yangming and as a comparison of their views. By examining issues held in common by both thinkers, Ivanhoe illustrates how the Confucian tradition was both continued and transformed by Wang Yangming, and shows the extent to which he was influenced by Buddhism. Topics explored are: the nature of morality; human nature; the nature and origin of wickedness; self cultivation; and sagehood. In addition to revised versions of each of these original chapters, Ivanhoe includes a new chapter on Kongzi's (Confucius') view of the Way..
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ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS - KINDLE EDITION [ENG]
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The Confucian Kingship in Korea
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What Would Confucius Do?: Wisdom and Advice on Achieving Success and Getting Along with Others
The world has changed dramatically in the 2,500 years since Confucius' lifetime, but in many ways we still struggle with his core concern: how to live together with a minimum of conflict In What Would Confucius Do?, East Asian teacher and scholar E. N. Berthrong provides a clear guide to how we can apply Confucian tenets to the modern world. Her original interpretation, based on years of studyingThe Analects, focuses on tact, compromise, and a willingness to see the other person's point of view-Confucius' three keys to living in harmony. This compendium of Confucian quotations, reflections, and advice-from "learning when to speak," to "making the most out of being alive"-is organized to follow the general path of one's career or life and can be applied to the workplace, the family, or society in general. Bernthrong's ambitious goal, like that of Confucius, is to get everyone to discover and know the true inner satisfaction that can be achieved through living life in a civilized manner as taught by one of history's most popular figures. .
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Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illusration and Confucian Ideology
Mirror of Morality takes an interdisciplinary look at an important form of pictorial art produced during two millennia of Chinese imperial rule. Ideas about individual morality and state ideology were based on the ancient teachings of Confucius with modifications by later interpreters and government institutions. Throughout the imperial period, members of the elite made, sponsored, and inscribed or used illustrations of themes taken from history, literature, and recent events to promote desired conduct among various social groups. This dimension of Chinese art history has never before been broadly covered or investigated in historical context. The first half of the study examines the nature of narrative illustration in China and traces the evolution of its functions, conventions, and rhetorical strategies from the second century BCE through the eleventh century. Under the stimulus of Buddhism, sophisticated techniques developed for representing stories in visual form. According to well-entrenched conventional wisdom, the emergence of literati painting in the following era caused critical interest and esteem to shift from objective modes of representation to more subjective forms of personal expression. While tracing changes in the social functions and cultural positions of narrative illustration, the second half of the book argues that narrative illustration continued to play a vital role in elite visual culture. Narrative pictures from the twelfth through early twentieth centuries are presented as case studies to show how emperors, officials, scholars, and private individuals used depictions of moralized stories to address concerns about political legitimacy, standards of governance, public morality, and personal cultivation. Correctly interpreted, models and cautionary examples from the past were a "mirror" that revealed the cosmic principles underlying human affairs, and pictures made these precepts visible to all. Besides offering new and insightful readings of familiar paintings, the work brings into discussion a number of little-known works from the later imperial period. Julia Murray's close examination of the patronage and reception of these pictures challenges established views on the tastes and values of elite, literate men of the time. By making judicious and original connections between literary and pictorial analyses and specific historical contexts, she has written an authoritative work that not only demonstrates the continuing vitality and variety of later Confucian narrative illustration, but also points up some noteworthy changes in the political landscape of visual culture between the Ming and Qing periods..
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