Allan The Heir and the Sage, Revised and Expanded Edition

Dynastic Legend in Early China
Revised and Expanded Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6226-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

A comprehensive analysis of the transformations of ancient history in early Chinese texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allan, Sarah

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface To The Revised and Expanded Edition
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Original Edition
Introduction

1. Problem and Theory

2. Legend Set 1: Tang Yao to Yú Shun

3. Legend Sets 2 and 3: Yú Shun to Xia Yu and the Foundation of the Xia Dynasty

4. Legend Set 4: The Foundation of the Shang Dynasty

5. Legend Set 5: The Foundation of the Zhou Dynasty

6. The Philosophers

7. Conclusion

Appendix 1
Charts

Appendix 2
The Identities of Taigong Wang in Zhou and Han Literature

Bibliography
Index of Chinese Names, Places, and Important Terms

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Allan is Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Asian Studies in Honor of Richard M. Bressler at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Early Chinese Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts; The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue; and The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art, and Cosmos in Early China, all published by SUNY Press.