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311 Index The introduction is indexed by page number; the main body of Exemplary Figures is indexed by chapter and verse. The glossary is not indexed, nor are lesser figures about whom little is known. Also not indexed are the sage-kings listed separately, aside from Kings Wen and Wu of Zhou, Yu the Great, and Shun. The verse summary for a given chapter is listed as VS–x (where x stands for the chapter number). achievement, 3.8, 5.13, 9.8, 9.13, 8.9; defined, 3.7, 3.10, 6.11, 13.32, 13.33–34. See also human agency aesthetics of Fayan. See Fayan agency. See human agency agriculture, 9.6, 10.7, 11.21, 13.34 Aidi, xv alchemy, 1.8 Analects, xi, xii Annals of Mr. Lü, xxiv Aristotle, xx assassin-retainers, 11.13, 11.17 astronomy, 10.1–3, 12.17. See also Chong and Li/Chongli authenticity of character, defined, 13.8 Ban Biao, xi Ban Gu, xiii, xviii barbarians, barbarism. See Central States; civility vs. barbarity Callimachus, xxxii Cang Jie pian, xvi, 2.11 careerists/careerism, 1.19, 8.4, 12.15 Central States (Zhongguo), xxvii– xxviii, 3.20, 4.11–12, 6.6, 12.8, 13.25–27, 13–29–30 Changes. See Yijing character, exemplars of, 10.26–27, 11.3–4, 11.16, 11.18–19, 13.18; antiheroes , 11.17. See also charismatic virtue charismatic virtue, 3.15, 4.13, 4.14, 4.20, VS-5, 5.13, 5.24–25, 7.13, 10.22, VS-11, 13.18, 13.33. See also character ; sages Chen She/Sheng, 10.6 Chengdi, xiv, xv, xvi chess, 4.23, 7.10 China, anachronistic. See Central States Chong and Li/Chongli, astronomers, 10.1 civility vs. barbarity, 4.22, 13.29–30. See also Central States clarity. See enlightenment 312 Index classical learning, xix–xxi, 1.1n2; learning and practice, VS-1, 1.1, 1.12, 12.9; purpose of, 1.6, 12.9, 12.17. See also Kongzi; learning, advantages of; Mencius/mencius; sages; utility of cultivation; Xunzi classicists. See Ru Confucius. See Kongzi courage, 11.4. See also strength/strongmen Cover-Heaven astronomical theory. See astronomy Daoxue. See True Way Learning decor/decorum, xxii–xxiii, 2.5, 2.13, 3.12, 3.16, 4.3–4, VS-5, 8.15, 10.13. See also ritual Decree, defined, 6.11. See also heaven/ Heaven: Heaven’s Mandate divining, 8.13–14 divinity (shen), xxi, 3.21, 4.3, VS-5, chapter 5 Documents, xxiii, xxxvii, 5.6–9, 6.8, 7.5, 9.7, 13.23–24 Dong Zhongshu, xxx–xxxi, 3.11, 11.19 Dongfang Shuo, 11.21 Dowager Empress Wang, xv Duke of Zhou, 1.7, VS-2, 7.8, 7.16, 8.9, 13.33 effort, 1.24, 3.5, 6.11, 6.13, 9.9, 10.7, 13.9, 13–33. See also achievement enlightenment (ming), xxi, xxxi–xxxii, 4.7–9, VS-5, VS-6, chapters 5–6, 10.18, 10.25, 13.20. See also wisdom Erya, xvii “ethnographic impulse.” See Fangyan Exemplary Figures. See Fayan Fan Li, legendary moneymaker, 10.5 Fang Ning. See Fayan: commentators to Fangyan, xii, xvi Fayan: aesthetics of, xxii; bibliography for, xi; commentators to, xii, xxix–xxx; fame of, xvi, xix–xxi; text criticism of, xii; themes in, xix; title, xi, 1.1n2 filial/filial duty, 1.22, 3.18, 11.3–4, 12.20– 22, VS-13, 13.1–8; defined, 13.5 Five Classics, xix, xix–xxi, xxvi, 1.19, 2.9, 5.6–10, 5.27, 7.5, 7.8, 8.11. See also individual Classics Five Lords, xiv Five Teachings, 4.9, 13.12. See also Way: of Kongzi’s teachings foresight, 9.1 “forms and titles” theory, 4.23 Four Graybeards, 10.26 fu poems, xiii–xv, xvii, xxi, xxiii, 2.1–2.3 Fukui Shigemasa, xix fuming, xxii Gao Yao, 10.3, 13.9 godlike. See “divinity” governance, 9.3–13, 9.15, 9.17–20, 13.14–15, 13.24–27, 13–29–31, 13.32 “Great Commentary.” See Yijing Great Peace, xx, 8.9 Great Plan, 6.8, 11.21 Han dynasty, 10.9–10, 13.33–34; generals, 1.19, 10.22, 10.27, 11.21; Liu Bang, founder of, 10.10, 10.14, 10.19 Han Feizi, 3.20, 4.22, 4.25, 6.22, 8.28 Han Xin, 10.5, 10.19–20 Hanshu or History...

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