Chinese Ideas About Nature and Society
Studies in Honour of Derk Bodde
Publication Year: 1987
Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
Calligraphic Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Download PDF (149.5 KB)
pp. ix-x
This publication would never have seen the light of day without the exemplary forbearance of the contributors. The lengthy process of editing and finding a publisher was, however, a rare and delightful opportunity to learn to know in a very personal way - albeit mostly through correspondence...
Preface
Download PDF (170.3 KB)
pp. xi- xii
This collection of essays, written by fellow-scholars and students of Derk Bodde for his seventy-fifth birthday, covers a wide variety of subjects spanning more than two thousand years of Chinese history, that is from the Warring States...
Biography of Derk Bodde
Download PDF (1.0 MB)
pp. 1-20
In a small room crowded with students and a smattering of faculty on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, a professor was delivering a speech in support of Henry A. Wallace, presidential candidate of the Progressive Party. The year was 1948. The professor's delivery was marked by the same clarity of diction and systematic arrangement of ...
Bibliography of Derk Bodde
Download PDF (658.7 KB)
pp. 21-34
A Letter from John C. Ferguson to Derk Bodde
Download PDF (381.1 KB)
pp. 35-36
Dr. Ferguson (1866-1945) went as a young missionary from the United States to China in 1887. There he became a distinguished administrator (among other posts, the first president of Nanyang College, 5hanghai, 1897-1902...
Distinguished Scholarship Award, 1985
Download PDF (375.4 KB)
pp. 37-38
Derk Bodde - Emeritus Professor of Chinese Studies . and founder of East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania renowned for pioneering scholarship in a wide range of Sinological fields: Your work in such diverse areas as the institutions, history, thought, festivals, law...
Interpretations of Nature
The First Neo-Confucianism: an Introduction to Yang Hsiung's 'Canon of Supreme Mystery' (T'ai hsuan ching, c. 4 B.C.)
Download PDF (3.0 MB)
pp. 41-100
Confucius, Mencius, and Hsun-tzu were humanists, in the sense that they believed the conditions of the good life were to be met within human society. The relation of the individual to the gods or to the cosmos was not a comparably urgent problem. By 100 B.C. the first stable ...
Symbolic Expressions of Yin-Yang Philosophy
Download PDF (1.6 MB)
pp. 101-116
The peoples of nearly every tribe and nation have used symbols to eχpress their deepest and most abstruse, philosophic or religious ideas, because symbols can more immediately convey these, on many ...
From Ontology to Cosmogony: Notes on Chuang Tzu and Huai-nan Tzu
Download PDF (737.5 KB)
pp. 117-130
In a classic work F. M. Cornford argues that Greek culture, starting about 600 B. C. moved steadily from religion to philosophy and that the latter was by and large a rational transposition...
Beliefs and Values
The Role of Compromise in Chinese Culture
Download PDF (1.1 MB)
pp. 133-152
Professor Bodde, in his essay on 'Harmony and Conflict in Chinese Philosophy', speaks of 'the Chinese mind, with its strong preference for working compromises in place of unworkable absolutes', and says that 'basic among Chinese thought patterns is the desire to merge seemingly The theme of the tendency toward compromise in Chinese culture is ...
'Yen Ch'a-san Thrice Tested': Printed Novel to Oral Tale
Download PDF (1.1 MB)
pp. 153-174
In my earlier studies of the late nineteenth-century novel San-hsia ωuyi 三俠五義 (Three Heroes and Five Gallants) and its relationship to an incomplete song-book manuscript located in the Rare Book Library of Academia ...
Living with the Chinese: the Muslim Experience in China, T'ang to Ming
Download PDF (1.0 MB)
pp. 175-194
A foreign religion or minority is inevitably faced with the problem of religions, Mazdeism, Nestorianism and Manichaeism, and Judaism and Islam too, though all mainly for foreigners and non-Chinese, were faced Buddhism. Nevertheless...
The Cult of the Dragon and the Invocation for Rain
Download PDF (1.0 MB)
pp. 195-214
Chinese historical sources frequently mention the occurrence of drought and the measures that were adopted to relieve the population from such calamities. Some of the methods reflect the early belief in a connection...
Shih chi 127, the Symbiosis of Two Historians
Download PDF (1.1 MB)
pp. 215-234
In my forthcoming book 'Ch'u Shao-sun 褚少孫一the Third Author of the Shih chi', I intend to present studies and annotated translations of those chapters of the Shih chi 史記 which have not yet been translated at all and especially...
Legal and Political Concepts
Kuan-tzu and the Newly Discovered Texts on Bamboo and Silk
Download PDF (781.8 KB)
pp. 237-248
During the early 1970s Chinese archeologists made a series of phenomenal discoveries of early documents written on bamboo and silk that have proved to be invaluable in the study of early Chinese thought and institutions. Two of these in particular have had a profound impact on The...
The Functions of the Commandant of Justice during the Han Period
Download PDF (787.4 KB)
pp. 249-264
During both the Former and the Later Han period, the Commandant of Justice, t'的g wei 廷尉 was one of the Nine Ministers, chiu ch'ing 九鯽， and a highly...
Pan Ku's Accusations against Wang Mang
Download PDF (419.0 KB)
pp. 265-270
The historian Pan Ku血固(d.A.D. 92) was a partisan of the Han dynasty and consequently a harsh critic of Wang Mang王莽. Guided by political necessity and a philosophy of history which was based on the ...
The Concept of Doubt in T'ang Criminal Law
Download PDF (504.1 KB)
pp. 271-280
ln the West those of us who are accustomed to the common law tradition of the English-speaking world or to the civil law of the European nations agree that no one can be convicted of a criminal offense unless his/her guilt is established...
The Meaning of Hsing-te
Download PDF (634.2 KB)
pp. 281-292
The study of traditional Chinese intellectual history depends fundamentally on understanding exactly what every word and phrase of classical Chinese means in its...
History of Science
The Fire-lance, Ancester of All Gun-barrels
Download PDF (3.2 MB)
pp. 295-334
The history of the fire-lance can be seen as the progressive development of the use of gun-powder in China. At some moment after the first invention ...
Contributors
Download PDF (268.1 KB)
pp. 335-338
Glossary-Index
Download PDF (486.9 KB)
pp. 339- 348
E-ISBN-13: 9789882200692
Print-ISBN-13: 9789622091894
Page Count: 360
Publication Year: 1987
