Dao Companion to the Excavated Guodian Bamboo Manuscripts

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
 Introduction: The Excavated Guodian 郭店 Bamboo Manuscripts  (Shirley Chan)....Pages 1-17
Front Matter ....Pages 19-19
 The Guodian Laozi 老子 Materials  (Franklin Perkins)....Pages 21-39
 On Citation Practices in the Guodian Manuscripts  (He Ruyue, Michael Nylan)....Pages 41-62
 Shu 書 (Documents) Repertoire in Argument-Based Texts from Guodian: The Case of Cheng zhi 成之 (Things Brought to Completion)  (Dirk Meyer)....Pages 63-88
 How to Achieve Good Governance: Arguments in the Tang Yu zhi dao 唐虞之道 (The Way of Tang and Yu) and the Zhong xin zhi dao 忠信之道 (The Principles of Uprightness and Reliability)  (Michael Schimmelpfennig)....Pages 89-115
 Which Comes First? Dao 道 or De 德: Evidence from the Guodian Manuscripts  (Constance A. Cook)....Pages 117-138
 Reading Heng cheng 恆稱 in the Guodian Bamboo Text Lu Mu Gong wen Zisi 鲁穆公問子思 (Duke Mu of Lu Asked Zisi)  (Liao Mingchun)....Pages 139-149
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 The Taiyi shengshui 太一生水 Cosmogony and Its Role in Early Chinese Thought  (Erica Brindley)....Pages 153-162
 Daoist Philosophy as Viewed from the Guodian Manuscripts  (Barbara Hendrischke)....Pages 163-186
 “Sagacity” and the Heaven–Human Relationship in the Wuxing 五行  (Erica Brindley)....Pages 187-196
 The Qiong da yi shi 窮達以時 (Poverty or Success Is a Matter of Timing) and the Concept of Heaven and Humans in Early Confucianism  (Liang Tao)....Pages 197-211
 Xing 性 and Qing 情: Human Nature and Moral Cultivation in the Guodian Text Xing zi ming chu 性自命出 (Nature Derives from Endowment)  (Shirley Chan)....Pages 213-237
 Body and Mind in the Guodian Manuscripts  (Lisa Raphals)....Pages 239-257
 Daoist Nature or Confucian Nurture: Moral Development in the Yucong 語叢 (Thicket of Sayings)  (Shirley Chan)....Pages 259-283
 The Debate Over Coercive Rulership and the “Human Way” in Light of Recently Excavated Warring States Texts (Updated)  (Scott Cook)....Pages 285-318
 The Guodian Confucian Texts and the Xunzi 荀子  (Tang Siufu)....Pages 319-338
 From the Liu wei 六位 (Six Positions) Discussed in the Liu de 六德 (Six Virtues) to the San gang 三綱 (Three Principles of Social Order)  (Li Rui)....Pages 339-354
 Guodian: A New Window for Understanding the Introduction of Buddhism into China  (Kenneth W. Holloway)....Pages 355-369
Back Matter ....Pages 371-375