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Book Sages and Filial Sons

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  • Author : Julia Ching
  • Publisher : Chinese University Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9789622014695
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Sages and Filial Sons written by Julia Ching and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Filial Piety in Chinese Thought and History

Download or read book Filial Piety in Chinese Thought and History written by Alan Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of filial piety is fundamental to our understanding of Chinese culture, and this excellent collection of essays explores its role in various areas of life throughout history. Often regarded as the key to preserving Chinese tradition and identity, its potentially vast impact on government and the development of Chinese culture makes it extremely relevant, and although invariably virtuous in its promotion of social cohesion, its ideas are often controversial. A broad range of topics are discussed chronologically including Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism, making it essential reading for those studying Chinese culture, religion and philosophy. This is a multi-disciplinary survey that combines historical studies with philosophical analysis from an international team of respected contributors.

Book Accounts of Filial Sons

Download or read book Accounts of Filial Sons written by Keith Nathaniel Knapp and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spiritual Titanism

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  • Author : Nicholas F. Gier
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 2000-03-31
  • ISBN : 9780791445280
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Spiritual Titanism written by Nicholas F. Gier and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-03-31 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative philosophical consideration of the extremes of humanism, or "Titanism," this book critiques trends in Eastern and Western philosophy and examines solutions to them.

Book Admonitions on Governing the People

Download or read book Admonitions on Governing the People written by Yag-yong Chŏng and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English translation of one of Korea's most celebrated historical works, a premodern classic so well known to Koreans that it has inspired contemporary literature and television. This translation opens a new window on early 19th-century Korea.

Book The Exemplary Society

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  • Author : Børge Bakken
  • Publisher : Clarendon Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780198295235
  • Pages : 542 pages

Download or read book The Exemplary Society written by Børge Bakken and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...richly documented and pathbreaking..."--Choice

Book Studies in Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan

Download or read book Studies in Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan written by Masao Maruyama and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of changing political thought during the Tokugawa period, the book traces the philosophical roots of Japanese modernization. Professor Maruyama describes the role of Sorai Confucianism and Norinaga Shintoism in breaking the stagnant confines of Chu Hsi Confucianism, the underlying political philosophy of the Tokugawa feudal state. He shows how the new schools of thought created an intellectual climate in which the ideas and practices of modernization could thrive. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China

Download or read book Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China written by Cong Ellen Zhang and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educated men in Song-dynasty China (960–1279) traveled frequently in search of scholarly and bureaucratic success. These extensive periods of physical mobility took them away from their families, homes, and native places for long periods of time, preventing them from fulfilling their most sacred domestic duty: filial piety to their parents. In this deeply grounded work, Cong Ellen Zhang locates the tension between worldly ambition and family duty at the heart of elite social and cultural life. Drawing on more than two thousand funerary biographies and other official and private writing, Zhang argues that the predicament in which Song literati found themselves diminished neither the importance of filial piety nor the appeal of participating in examinations and government service. On the contrary, the Northern Song witnessed unprecedented literati activity and state involvement in the bolstering of ancient forms of filial performances and the promotion of new ones. The result was the triumph of a new filial ideal: luyang. By labeling highly coveted honors and privileges attainable solely through scholarly and official accomplishments as the most celebrated filial acts, the luyang rhetoric elevated office-holding men to be the most filial of sons. Consequently, the proper performance of filiality became essential to scholar-official identity and self-representation. Zhang convincingly demonstrates that this reconfiguration of elite male filiality transformed filial piety into a status- and gender-based virtue, a change that had wide implications for elite family life and relationships in the Northern Song. The separation of elite men from their parents and homes also made the idea of “native place” increasingly fluid. This development in turn generated an interest in family preservation as filial performance. Individually initiated, kinship- and native place-based projects flourished and coalesced with the moral and cultural visions of leading scholar-intellectuals, providing the social and familial foundations for the ascendancy of Neo-Confucianism as well as new cultural norms that transformed Chinese society in the Song and beyond.

Book Go Through the Hell  to be the Sage

Download or read book Go Through the Hell to be the Sage written by Qi Shou and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heavenly Dao led to the reversal of Yin and Yang, and all worlds were treated as a prison. If one wanted to break through the Heavenly Dao and become eternal, the only way was to break through the Heavenly Dao and restore the heavens. The protagonist, the reincarnation of the reincarnation of the reincarnation of a reincarnation, would eventually defy the heavens to become a saint. The main character: Life as a mystery, reincarnation as reincarnation. Female lead: Has it disappeared? How could that be possible? She was the female lead, so of course she would appear again. Furthermore, she was the center. The Heavenly Dao would eventually be shattered, the universe would be set in stone, and everything would be in chaos. Close]

Book Sino Japanese Studies

Download or read book Sino Japanese Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Offerings Made Like Unto the Son of God

Download or read book The Offerings Made Like Unto the Son of God written by Walter Stephen Moule and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage

Download or read book Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage written by Philip J. Ivanhoe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage: The Essential of Writings of Im Yungjidang and Gang Jeongildang introduces the lives and thought of two Korean women Confucian philosophers from the late Joseon Dynasty (18th -19th century), Im Yunjidang (1721-93) and Gang Jeongildang(1772-1832), and sketches some of the ways their work can contribute to contemporary philosophical inquiry. Both women are known for arguing, on the basis of distinctively Confucian philosophical claims about the original, pure moral nature shared by all human beings, that women are as capable as men of attaining the highest forms of intellectual and moral achievement and thereby can become female sages (yeoseong). The fact that they lived in a highly patriarchal culture presented special challenges, but the conditions of their individual lives offered unique opportunities and exerted different kinds of pressure upon them, which subsequently was manifested in their distinctive versions of a generally shared vision. This book explores how they were able to overcome both the general and particular challenges of their place and time and go on to live impressive and exemplary lives. We also shows how their resistance and response to the patriarchal context of late Joseon society and the different challenges they faced in the course of their individual lives informed the content and style of their philosophy and produced original philosophy that remains of great value to us today"--

Book The SAGE Handbook of Gifted and Talented Education

Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Gifted and Talented Education written by Belle Wallace and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of Gifted & Talented Education provides a comprehensive and international overview of key challenges and issues in the field of gifted education, making this an invaluable volume for individuals in the fields of education, public and private school administration, psychology and beyond. Containing contributions by a range of expert authors from around the world, chapters include discussions of the wide range of human abilities and talents which impinge upon academic success, with explorations of various political, social and economic factors which influence how ‘giftedness’ and ‘gifted education’ is defined and understood in different regions around the globe. PART 1. CONCEPTS OF GIFTEDNESS AND IDENTIFICATION: SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL NEEDS PART 2: EDUCATIONAL PROVISION: PROGRAMS AND STRATEGIES PART 3: GLOBAL RESPONSES TO EMERGING G&T PROVISION: DEFINING THE FUTURE

Book Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan

Download or read book Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan written by Wai-ming Ng and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering study of the localization of Chinese culture in early modern Japan, using legends, classics, and historical terms as case studies. While current scholarship on Tokugawa Japan (1603–1868) tends to see China as either a model or “the Other,” Wai-ming Ng’s pioneering and ambitious study offers a new perspective by suggesting that Chinese culture also functioned as a collection of “cultural building blocks” that were selectively introduced and then modified to fit into the Japanese tradition. Chinese terms and forms survived, but the substance and the spirit were made Japanese. This borrowing of Chinese terms and forms to express Japanese ideas and feelings could result in the same things having different meanings in China and Japan, and this process can be observed in the ways in which Tokugawa Japanese reinterpreted Chinese legends, Confucian classics, and historical terms. Ng breaks down the longstanding dichotomies between model and “the other,” civilization and barbarism, as well as center and periphery that have been used to define Sino-Japanese cultural exchange. He argues that Japanese culture was by no means merely an extended version of Chinese culture, and Japan’s uses and interpretations of Chinese elements were not simply deviations from the original teachings. By replacing a Sinocentric perspective with a cross-cultural one, Ng’s study represents a step forward in the study of Tokugawa intellectual history. Wai-ming Ng is Professor of Japanese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of The I Ching in Tokugawa Thought and Culture.

Book The Book of Filial Duty

Download or read book The Book of Filial Duty written by Confucius and published by tredition. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Filial Duty - Confucius - Part of the Wisdom of the East series. This is a translation of the Hsio Ching, or the Book of Filial Duty. It was written about 400 BCE, about a century following the death of Confucius, and is attributed to a conversation between Confucius and his disciple Zengzi. Confucius was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Confucius's teachings and philosophy underpin East Asian culture and society, remaining influential across China and East Asia to this day. Confucius considered himself a transmitter for the values of earlier periods which he claimed had been abandoned in his time. His philosophical teachings, called Confucianism, emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice, kindness, and sincerity. His followers competed with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era, only to be suppressed in favor of the Legalists during the Qin dynasty. Following the victory of Han over Chu after the collapse of Qin, Confucius's thoughts received official sanction in the new government. During the Tang and Song dynasties, Confucianism developed into a system known in the West as Neo-Confucianism, and later as New Confucianism. Confucianism was part of the Chinese social fabric and way of life; to Confucians, everyday life was the arena of religion.

Book The World s Chinese Students  Journal

Download or read book The World s Chinese Students Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Siren and the Sage

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  • Author : Steven Shankman
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2003-09-16
  • ISBN : 1725208458
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Siren and the Sage written by Steven Shankman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-09-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultures of ancient China and ancient Greece have exerted immeasurable influence on later civilizations. The texts and cultural values of classical China spread throughout East Asia and became the foundation of learning in Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Greek learning and culture receive credit for many of the intellectual paradigms of the West. Probably the one which is most distinctly Western is the tradition of logical proof and the related assumption that, as Aristotle put it in 'Metaphysics' 980, 'we all desire to know.' In contrast, the Chinese tradition, as exemplified by Laozi's 'Dao de jing,' cautions that through our desire to know we may forfeit wisdom, thus engendering a split between knowledge and wisdom. 'The Siren and the Sage' is a comparative study of what some of the most influential writers of ancient China and ancient Greece thought it meant to know and whether they distinguished knowledge from wisdom. It surveys selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from roughly the eighth through the second centuries BCE, focusing on the 'Odyssey,' the ancient Chinese 'Classic of Poetry,' Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War,' Sima Qian's 'Records of the Historian,' Plato's 'Symposium,' Laozi's 'Dao de jing' and the writings of Zhuangzi. The intention, through such juxtaposition, is to introduce foundational texts of each tradition, texts which continue to influence most of the world's peoples. It is intriguing to ask what awareness, if any, these distinctive cultures had of each other. A considerable body of scholarship comparing ancient Greece and ancient China now exists. Scholars are presenting evidence that the two cultures may actually have been aware of each other's presence, even though that awareness was presumably indirect, perhaps mediated by the nomadic peoples of Central Asia. While not directly contributing evidence, the authors argue that comparing the cultures of Greece and China will continue to be an irresistible and important scholarly debate. The book offers a provocative study which is accessible to students and general readers and at the same time contributes to the debate.