Cosmology, Ontology, and Human Efficacy : Essays in Chinese Thought
1993, 1st edition. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #392844
ISBN: 0824814436
Physical description: 258 pages, 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Ho and T'ung in Chinese intellectual history / D. W. Y. Kwok -- Confucian cosmological myth and neo-Confucian transcendence / Hao Chang -- Toward an interpretation of Ch'ing ontology / On-Cho Ng -- The revaluation of benevolence (Jen) in Ch'ing dynasty evidential research / Benjamin A. Elman -- Testimony to the resilience of the mind : the life and thought of P'eng Shao-sheng (1740-1796) / Richard Shek --- Ch'ing cosmology and popular precepts / San-Pao Li -- Divination in Ch'ing dynasty China / Richard J. Smith -- Purist hermeneutics and ritualist ethics in mid-Ch'ing thought / Kai-Wing Chow -- The "turn of fortune" (Yun-hui) : inherited concepts and China's response to the West / Erh-Min Wang -- Escape from disillusionment : personality and value change in the case of Sung Chiao-jen / Don C. Price. Subjects: Cosmology, Chinese; Ontology; History, East Asia; Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East; History & Archaeology; China Intellectual life 1644-1912.
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