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The magnitude of ming : command, allotment, and fate in Chinese culture / edited by Christopher Lupke.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawaiì Press, c2005.Description: xii, 377 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0824827392 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780824827397 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 123/.0951 22
LOC classification:
  • BJ1461 .M34 2005
Contents:
Introduction:Various Modes of Ming /Christopher Lupke -- The Foundations of Fate: Early Chinese Conceptions of Ming. Command and the Content of Tradition / David Schaberg ; Following the Commands of Heaven: The Notion of Ming in Early China / Michael Puett ; Languages of Fate: Semantic Fields in Chinese and Greek / Lisa Raphals ; How to Steer Through Life: Confronting Fate in the Daybook / Mu-chou Poo -- Escape Attempts from Finitude: Ming in the Later Han and Six Dynasties Period. Living off the Books: Fifty Ways to Dodge Ming in Early Medieval China / Robert Campany ; Simple Twists of Fate: The Daoist Body and its Ming / Stephen Bokenkamp ; Multiple Vistas of Ming and Changing Visions of Life in the Work of Tao Qian / Zong-qi Cai -- Reversals of Fortune and Reversals of Reality: The Literary Career of Ming in Late Imperial Fiction and Drama. Turning Lethal Slander into Productive Instruction: Laws, Ledgers, and the Changing Taxonomies of Vernacular Production in Late Imperial China / Patricia Sieber ; Fate and Transcendence in the Rhetoric of Myth and Ritual / P. Steven Sangren -- Determinism's Progress: Voluntarism, Gender and Fatalism in Modern China. Hubris in Chinese Thought: A Theme in Post-Mao Cultural Criticism / Woei Lien Chong ; Gendered Fate / Deirdre Sabina Knight ; Divi/Nation: Modern Literary Representations of the Chinese Imagined Community / Christopher Lupke.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-363) and index.

Introduction:Various Modes of Ming /Christopher Lupke -- The Foundations of Fate: Early Chinese Conceptions of Ming. Command and the Content of Tradition / David Schaberg ; Following the Commands of Heaven: The Notion of Ming in Early China / Michael Puett ; Languages of Fate: Semantic Fields in Chinese and Greek / Lisa Raphals ; How to Steer Through Life: Confronting Fate in the Daybook / Mu-chou Poo -- Escape Attempts from Finitude: Ming in the Later Han and Six Dynasties Period. Living off the Books: Fifty Ways to Dodge Ming in Early Medieval China / Robert Campany ; Simple Twists of Fate: The Daoist Body and its Ming / Stephen Bokenkamp ; Multiple Vistas of Ming and Changing Visions of Life in the Work of Tao Qian / Zong-qi Cai -- Reversals of Fortune and Reversals of Reality: The Literary Career of Ming in Late Imperial Fiction and Drama. Turning Lethal Slander into Productive Instruction: Laws, Ledgers, and the Changing Taxonomies of Vernacular Production in Late Imperial China / Patricia Sieber ; Fate and Transcendence in the Rhetoric of Myth and Ritual / P. Steven Sangren -- Determinism's Progress: Voluntarism, Gender and Fatalism in Modern China. Hubris in Chinese Thought: A Theme in Post-Mao Cultural Criticism / Woei Lien Chong ; Gendered Fate / Deirdre Sabina Knight ; Divi/Nation: Modern Literary Representations of the Chinese Imagined Community / Christopher Lupke.

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