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Patterns of Disengagement

Submitted by Tsai Julius Nanting on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 20:40

 

PATTERNS OF DISENGAGEMENT: THE PRACTICE AND PORTRAYAL OF RECLUSION IN EARLY MEDIEVAL CHINA. By Alan J. Berkowitz. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+296. Cloth, $60, ISBN 0-8047-3603-0. 

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The Fragments of the Daoxue Zhuan

Submitted by Miller James on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 20:40

 

 

THE FRAGMENTS OF THE DAOXUE ZHUAN. By Stephan Peter Bumbacher. European University Studies Series XXVII, Asian and African Studies vol. 78. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2000. Pp. xv + 609; appendixes; index. Paper, $79.95, ISBN 3-631-36539-X; US-ISBN 0-8204-4772-2.

 

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To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth

Submitted by Komjathy on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 20:39

 

TO LIVE AS LONG AS HEAVEN AND EARTH: A TRANSLATION AND STUDY OF GE HONG'S TRADITIONS OF DIVINE TRANSCENDENTS. By Robert Ford Campany. Daoist Classics 2. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xxviii + 607; illustrations; index. Cloth, $95.00, ISBN 0-520-23034-5.

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The Tao of the West

Submitted by James Miller on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 20:39

 

 

THE TAO OF THE WEST: WESTERN TRANSFORMATIONS OF TAOIST THOUGHT. By J. J. Clarke. London: Routledge Press, 2000. Pp. xi + 270; appendixes; indexes. Paper, $20.99, ISBN 0-415-20620-0. 

 

This deservedly prize-winning book's stated aims are "to uncover the ways in which Daoism has entered Western consciousness, and to examine the methods by which ideas and texts from this ancient Chinese tradition have been selected, translated, interpreted, reconstituted and assimilated within the framework of modern Western thought" (5). The book consists of nine chapters: (1) 'The way that can be told': introduction; (2) 'The meaning is not the meaning': on the nature Daoism; (3) 'Cramped scholars': Western interpretations of Daoism; (4) 'The Great Clod': Daoist natural philosophy; (5) 'Going rambling without destination': moral explorations; (6) 'The transformation of things': the alchemy of life, sex and health; (7) 'The Way is incommunicable': transcendence; (8) 'The twitter of birds': philosophical themes; and (9) 'Journey to the West': by way of concluding. 

 

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Defining Chu

Submitted by Komjathy on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 20:38

 

 

DEFINING CHU: IMAGE AND REALITY IN ANCIENT CHINA. Edited by Constance A. Cook and John S. Major. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. Pp. ix + 254; maps; plates; illustrations; appendix; index. Cloth, $59.00, ISBN 0-8248-1885-7.

 

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Hiding the World in the World

Submitted by James Miller on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 20:38

 

HIDING THE WORLD IN THE WORLD: UNEVEN DISCOURSES ON THE ZHUANGZI. Edited by Scott Cook. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. Pp. x + 317. Paper, $25.95, ISBN 0-7914-5866-0.

 

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Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi

Submitted by richeyj on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 20:37

 

 

RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF THE LAOZI. Edited by Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Philip J. Ivanhoe. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. Pp. xi + 276; table and indices. Cloth, $72.50, ISBN 0-7914-4111-3; paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-7914-4112-1.

 

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Society and the Supernatural in Song China

Submitted by Komjathy on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 20:37

 

 

SOCIETY AND THE SUPERNATURAL IN SONG CHINA. By Edward L. Davis. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Pp. xi + 355; appendix; glossary; index. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8248-2310-9; Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8248-2398-2.

 

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Women in Daoism

Submitted by Neswald Sara Elaine on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 20:36

 

 

WOMEN IN DAOISM. By Catherine Despeux and Livia Kohn. Cambridge, Mass.: Three Pines Press, 2003. Pp. viii + 296, illustrations, charts. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 1-931483-01-9. 

 

 

THE TEACHINGS AND PRACTICES OF THE EARLY QUANZHEN TAOIST MASTERS. By Stephen Eskildsen. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. Pp. vii + 274. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-7914-6045-2.

 

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