Defoort / Lee The Many Lives of Yang Zhu

A Historical Overview
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9041-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 359 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Presents the most important portrayals of the Daoist master Yang Zhu throughout Chinese history, from the Warring States period until today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Defoort, Carine

Lee, Ting-mien

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Being and Becoming: The Many Portrayals of Yang Zhu
Carine Defoort and Ting-mien Lee

1. Five Pre-Republican Portrayals of Yang Zhu
Carine Defoort

I. From Warring States to Wei-Jin

2. Yang Zhu and Mozi as Critics of Unification Warfare
Ting-mien Lee

3. Beyond Mencius’s Portrayal of Yang Zhu and Mozi: A Zhuangzian-Han Feizian Yang-Mo
Yao-cheng Chang

4. Deconstructing “Hedonism”: Understanding Yang Zhu in the Liezi
Erica Brindley

II. From Tang to Ming

5. Yang Zhu’s Role in Tang-Song Proto-daotong Discourse
John Makeham

6. Yang Zhu’s Role in the Construction of Zhu Xi’s Daotong
John Makeham

7. Plucking Hairs and Shaving Heads: Li Zhi’s Repudiation of Yang Zhu
Esther Sunkyung Klein

III. From the Qing Dynasty Onward

8. The Birth of the Image of the “Egoist-Epicurean Philosopher” Yang Zhu during the Meiji Period
Masayuki Sato

9. Struggling between Tradition and Modernity: Liang Qichao’s Portrayal of Yang Zhu in the Early Twentieth Century
Xiaowei Wang

10. Feng Youlan and Yang Zhu: The Shifting Discursive Space (1920–80)
Xiaoqing Diana Lin

11. Three Dimensions of Yang Zhu Research in the Twentieth Century: Hu Shi, Meng Wentong, and Guan Feng
Feng Cao

About the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carine Defoort is Full Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Leuven, KU Leuven. Her previous books include Having a Word with Angus Graham: At Twenty-Five Years into His Immortality, coedited with Roger T. Ames, and The Pheasant Cap Master (He guan zi): A Rhetorical Reading, both published by SUNY Press. Ting-mien Lee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Macau.