The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender

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Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgment
Introduction
	I. bringing the past into the present
	II. multiculturalism and liberal feminism: is the rift between them necessary?
	III. development of gender discourse in chinese culture and thought
	IV. purpose of this volume and its four main parts
	V. what’s next? a way forward
Part I Confucian Approaches: Ancient and Medieval
	Chapter One Women and Moral Dilemmas in Early Chinese Narrative
	Chapter Two Discourses on Women from the Classical Period to the Song: An Integrated Approach
		I. INTRODUCTION
		II. APPROACHING “WOMAN” THROUGH TEXTS ACROSS TIME
		III. SOME FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENTS
		IV. BUDDHISM AND ITS EFFECT ON DAOISM FROM HAN TO THE SIX DYNASTIES PERIOD
		V. PERSONAL AGENDA AND PHILOSOPHY DURING TANG DYNASTY (618–907)
		VI. SONG DYNASTY SEEN THROUGH INSTITUTIONAL AGENDA: SOCIOPOLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS SURVIVAL
		VII. CONCLUSION: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES IN THE SYNCRETISM-SYNTHESIS OF PHILOSOPHIES
	Chapter Three Neo-Confucians and Zhu Xi on Family and Women: Challenges and Potentials
		I. Unearthing new evidence
		II. ZHU XI ON FAMILY AND WOMEN
		III. THE LI-QI, YIN-YANG, DYADIC RELATION: TWO INCONSISTENT IMPLICATIONS
		IV. CONCLUSION
	Chapter Four The Dream of Sagehood: A Re-Examination of Queen Sohae’s Naehoon
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Part II Confucian Approaches: Modern and Contemporary
	Chapter Five Close Personal Relationships and the Situated Self: The Confucian Analects and Feminist Philosophy
		I. FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY’S SITUATED SELF
		Ii. The five relationships in early confucian philosophy
		III. FILIAL PIETY IN THE ANALECTS
		IV. FRIENDSHIP IN THE ANALECTS
		V. RELATIONAL COMPLEXITIES
	Chapter Six Care and Justice: Reading Mencius, Kant, and Gilligan Comparatively
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	Chapter Seven Moral Reasoning: The Female Way and the Xunzian Way
		I. XUNZI’S VIEW OF WOMEN’S MORAL REASONING
		II. THE ROLES THAT AFFECT AND CONTEXT PLAY IN XUNZI’S CONCEPTION OF MORAL REASONING
		III. DO CONFUCIANS REALLY CARE?
		IV. CONCLUSION
	Chapter Eight Multiculturalism and Feminism Revisited: A Hybridized Confucian Care Ethic
	Chapter Nine Would Confucianism Allow Two Men to Share a Peach? Compatibility between Ancient Confucianism and Homosexuality
		I. INTRODUCTION
		II. THE TERM “HOMOSEXUALITY”
		III. HOMOSEXUALITY IN ANCIENT CHINA
		IV. CONFUCIAN REASONS SUPPORTING THE PERMISSIBILITY OF HOMOSEXUALITY
		V. EXTRINSIC PROBLEMS OF HOMOSEXUALITY
		VI. CONCLUSION
Part III Daoist Approaches
	Chapter Ten Yinyang Gender Dynamics: Lived Bodies, Rhythmical Changes, and Cultural Performances1
		I. EMBODYING YIN AND EMBRACING YANG: BEYOND THE SEX AND GENDER BINARY
		II. YINYANG FLUIDITY AND INTEGRATION: CROSSING THE MALE AND FEMALE BOUNDARY
		III. YINYANG GENDER DYNAMICS: A SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND THE CREATIVITY OF WOMAN
		IV. CONCLUSION
	Chapter Eleven On the Dao of Ci . (Feminine/Female) in the Daodejing«...»
		I. INTRODUCTION
		II. How is the feminine identified in the classical chinese tradition?
		III. THREE MAJOR READINGS OF THE FEMININE IN THE DAODEJING
		IV. THE PERVASIVENESS OF THE WATER METAPHOR IN THE DAODEJING
		V. THE PRINCIPLE OF ABIDING BY THE FEMININE/FEMALE
		Vi. DIFFERING COMPORTMENTS TOWARD CI AND XIONG
		VII. CONCLUDING REMARKS
	Chapter Twelve To Beget and to Forget: On the Transformative Power of the Two Feminine Images of Dao in the Laozi*
		I. THE MOTHER AND THE MYSTERIOUS FEMALE
		II. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FEMALE FOR GROWTH AND DEVELoPMENT
		III. MYSTICISM AND BEYOND: FORGETTING AND NOURISHING
	Chapter Thirteen The Yijing, Gender, and the Ethics of Nature
		I. INITIAL QUESTIONS: GENDER, NATURE, AND “CHINESE THOUGHT”1
		II. A PRE- AND POST-PATRIARCHAL BOOK OF CHANGES?
		III. THE YIJING AS DIVINATION, PROPHECY, AND SOCIAL CRITIQUE
		IV. LEARNING FROM NATURE THROUGH THE DIALECTICAL IMAGE
		V. THE YIJING, GENDER, AND AN AFFECTIVE-REFLECTIVE ETHICS OF NATURE
		VI. CONCLUSION
	Chapter Fourteen Daoism and the LGBT Community
Part IV Buddhist Approaches
	Chapter Fifteen Buddhist Nondualism: Deconstructing Gender and Other Delusions of the Discriminating Mind through Awareness
	Chapter sixteen Non-Self, Agency, and Women: Buddhism’s Modern Transformation
		I. INTRODUCTION
		II. BUDDHIST TEACHING OF NON-SELF AND EMPTINESS
		III. TEXTS AND TENSIONS: BUDDHIST TEXTS ON WOMEN
		IV. BUDDHISM’S MODERN TRANSFORMATION
		V. CONCLUSION
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	Chapter seventeen “The Bodhisattva’s Path” as Gender-Neutral Practices: A Case Study of the Buddhist Tzu Chi Community in Taiwa
		I. TZU CHI FOUNDATION: THE BACKGROUND
		II. PROMINENCE OF MATERNAL VALUES
		III. GENDER CROSSING
		IV. discussion
		V. CONCLUSION
	Chapter Eighteen Bhik.uni Chao-Hwei’s Buddhist-Feminist Social Ethics
		I. FROM ANIMAL PROTECTION TO GENDER EQUALITY WITHIN THE MONASTIC SANGHA
		II. UNDERSTANDING THE “CO-ARISING” OF LGBT AS A DEPRIVED AND OPPRESSED GROUP
		III. “MIDDLE WAY” APPROACH: BUDDHIST PERSPECTIVE ON LOVE AND SEX
		IV. PROTECTION OF BEINGS: BUDDHIST REASONS FOR SUPPORTING LGBT RIGHTS
		V. SIGNIFICANCE OF CHAO-HWEI’S STANDING IN SOLIDARITY WITH SAME-SEX COUPLES
		VI. BHIKs. UNi- CHAO-HWEI’S BUDDHIST-FEMINIST SOCIAL ETHICS
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