Via a hermeneutics focused on Chinese numerology and concentric arrangements, the book offers a novel construal of the textual universe proper to early China writings. The author lays bare distinguishable patterns of textual composition while relating them to corresponding patterns of thinking. He differentiates rhetorical variants through detailed studies of the Zhuangzi's Inner chapters, the Laozi, the Analects, and the Huainanzi. The philosophical depth and relevance of the Chinese ancient worldview appear in a fresh light when one unearths (...) the patterns into which its content is embedded. The focus on textual patterns and rhetorical arrangements also facilitates the reading of Chinese classics alongside other traditions. The book will be a valuable reference for scholars and graduate students studying Chinese literary criticism, Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy. (shrink)

本书内容包括:四岳之后、姓氏称谓、东海上人、早年坎坷、时定入周、为文王师、封建齐国、强国方略、政略特色等。.

Recently discovered ancient silk and bamboo manuscripts have transformed our understanding of classical Chinese thought. In this book, Wang Zhongjiang closely examines these texts, and by parsing the complex divergence between ancient and modern Chinese records reveals early Chinese philosophy to be much richer and more complex than we ever imagined. As numerous and varied cosmologies sprang up in this cradle of civilization, beliefs in the predictable movements of nature merged with faith in gods and their divine (...) punishments. Slowly, powerful spirits and gods were stripped of their potency as nature's constant order awakened people to the possibility of universal laws, and from those laws was finally born an ideally conceived community, objectively managed, and rationally ordered. (shrink)

本书包括:《金人铭》与《老子》;论《晏子春秋》的编写及成书过程;孙子军事思想的继承和创新;论兵家的起源及其学术领域的开拓等内容。.

本书主要内容包括:史料困境的突破与儒家系谱的重建;郭店竹简《性自命出》篇初探;竹帛《五行》为子思、孟子所作论;竹简《五行》分经解论:《五行》章句简注;竹简《五行》与子思思想研究等.

本书收集作者《国语》, 《左传》研究方面的论文十篇, 这些论文曾先后发表于《中研院史语所集刊》, 《国学研究》等学术刊物上, 为作者在先秦史研究上的代表之作. 本书论文首先说明所论问题的研究状况及分歧, 对不同的观点进行分析探讨, 进而得出自己的结论. 对问题的论述层层深入, 鞭辟入里; 对史料的收集、甄别和辩驳也十分严谨, 言必有据, 不空发议论. 本书所收论文在台湾虽已发表多年, 但在《国语》, 《左传》研究方面仍有较大的参考价值.

This response to Zongjie Wu's "Interpretation, autonomy, and interpretation" focuses on the "battle between East and West" which contextualizes Wu's proposal to counter the current Western domination of Chinese pedagogic discourse with an "authentic language" recovered from the Chinese classics. It points out that it is impossible and undesirable to reject all Western influences. The dualistic opposition between East and West over-simplifies and blinds one to the complexity of China's history and culture, and unnecessarily limits future (...) possibilities. It challenges Wu's conflation of Confucianism and Daoism and his claim that the authentic "language of Tao" recovered from the "Analects" is a language "pointing to the nameless". The response concludes with an alternative Deweyan account of how to make Chinese education authentic. (shrink)

Li Zehou is widely regarded as one of China’s most influential contemporary thinkers. He has produced influential theories of the development of Chinese thought and the place of aesthetics in Chinese ethics and value theory. This book is the first English-language translation of Li Zehou’s work on classical Chinese thought. It includes chapters on the classical Chinese thinkers, including Confucius, Mozi, Laozi, Sunzi, Xunzi and Zhuangzi, and also on later eras and thinkers such as Dong Zhongshu (...) in the Han Dynasty and the Song-Ming Neo-Confucians. (shrink)

The articles in this collection were all selected from the first five volumes of the Journal of Dialectics of Nature published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 1979 and 1985. The Journal was established in 1979 as a comprehensive theoretical publication concerning the history, philosophy and sociology of the natural sciences. It began publication as a response to China's reform, particularly the policy of opening to the outside world. Chinese scholars began to undertake distinctive, original research (...) in these fields. This collection provides a cross-section of their efforts during the initial phase. To enable western scholars to understand the historical process of this change in Chinese academics, Yu Guangyuan's `On the Emancipation of the Mind' and Xu Liangying's `Essay on the Role of Science and Democracy in Society' have been included in this collection. Three of the papers included on the philosophy of science are discussions of philosophical issues in cosmology and biology by scientists themselves. The remaining four are written by philosophers of science and discuss information and cognition, homeostasis and Chinese traditional medicine, the I Ching (Yi Jing) and mathematics, etc. Papers have been selected on the history of both classical and modern science and technology, the most distinctive of which are macro-comparisons of the development of science in China and the west. Some papers discuss the issue of the demarcation of periods in the history of science, the history of ancient Chinese mathematics, astronomy, metallurgy, machinery, medicine, etc. Others discuss the history of modern physics and biology, the history of historiography of science in China and the history of regional development of Chinese science and technology. Also included are biographies of three post-eighteenth-century Chinese scholars, Li Shanlan (1811-1882), Hua Hengfang (1833–1902), and Cai Yuanpei (1868–1940), who contributed greatly to the introduction of western science and scholarship to China. In addition, three short papers have been included introducing the interactions between Chinese scholars and three great western scientists, Niels Bohr, Norbert Wiener, and Robert A. Millikan. (shrink)

「文內」和「文外」指的是文本與文本以外所有外緣因素之間的關係。文本猶如王陽明所謂的山花，只是白紙黑字，本身並無任何意義，意義的產生全憑讀者的觀照，一經觀照，「顏色一時明白起來。便知此花不在你的心外。」 《易‧繫辭下》謂「苟非其人，道不虛行」，正可借來形容文本與讀者之間共存的關係和詮釋的本體根據。儘管讀者的想像可以漫無邊際，但也並非毫無客觀制約。在文本的文外詮釋，須兼顧讀者本人的客觀因素和主觀關懷，其 範圍最終必由讀者本人的見識以及其時代關懷、風氣觀念和思想史脈絡所決定。 本書分為四個部分：第一部分名為「通義」，一方面〈導論〉討論文內文外兩種詮釋取向在先秦時期形成的大致情況；另一方面，論「朋」一文又從思想史的角度縱覽《論語》首章中「朋」字從西漢一直到清初的詮釋發展。第二 部分名為「文內之詮釋」，共收兩篇論文，分別確定《莊子》和《論語》中相關篇章的本義。第三部分名為「文化史中的文外詮釋」，共收四篇論文，討論的經典包括儒、道、釋三家。四篇論文的一個共同目的在於論證文化史的 外緣影響可以幫助我們如實地認識經典詮釋的原貌和精神。第四部分名為「思想史中的文外詮釋」，共收三篇論文，重點在指出經典詮釋在政治背景和思想史脈絡中可以衍伸出新穎的思想內容。.

本书分为“理论与背景”、“先秦儒家与经典诠释”、“传统儒者解经方法及其现代转折”三个部分.