Exemplary Figures / Fayan??

Michael Nylan is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Five "Confucian" Classics and Yang Xiong and The Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning, coauthor of Lives of Confucius, and translator of The Canon of Supreme Mystery by Yang Xiong.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Chronology of Dynasties

Introduction

Exemplary Figures / Fayan

1. Learning and Practicing

2. Our Masters

3. Cultivating One's Person

4. Asking about the Way

5. Asking about Divine Insight

6. Asking about Illumination

7. Things Rarely Seen

8. Every Five Hundred Years

9. Foresight

10. Chong and Li

11. Yan Yuan and Min Ziqian

12. The Noble Man

13. Honoring the Ancestors, the Ultimate Duty

Glossary of Names, Legendary and Historical

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Michael Nylan is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Five "Confucian" Classics and Yang Xiong and The Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning, coauthor of Lives of Confucius, and translator of The Canon of Supreme Mystery by Yang Xiong.

Summary

A core text that will be relied upon by scholars of Chinese history and philosophy

Product details

• Authors: Yang Xiong, Yang/ Nylan Xiong, Xiong Yang, Xiong Yang
• Assisted by: Michael Nylan (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2013
• EAN: 9780295992891
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99289-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Classics of Chinese Thought; Classics of Chinese Thought
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories