Overview
- Written by nationally recognized scholar in Huang-Lao Daoism · Provides foreign sinologists with rich materials to study Daoism, Huang-Lao Daoism and excavated documents · Expertly examines the Mawangdui silk texts and the Guodian Chu bamboo slips
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This text considers the prevalence of Lao-Zhuang Daoism and Huang-Lao Daoism in late pre-imperial and early imperial Chinese traditional thought. The author uses unique excavated documents and literature to explore the Huang-Lao tradition of Daoist philosophy, which exerted a great influence on China ancient philosophy and political theories, from the Pre-Qin period to the Wei-Jin periods. It explains the original and significance of Huang-Lao Daoism, its history and fundamental characteristics, notably discussing the two sides of Huang-Lao, namely the role and function of Lao Zi and the Yellow Emperor, and discusses why the two can constitute a complementary relationship. It also provides a key study of the Mawangdui silk texts, bamboo slips of the Heng Xian, Fan Wu Liu Xing, considering both the theory of human Xing and of Qi.
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Book Title: Daoism in Early China
Book Subtitle: Huang-Lao Thought in Light of Excavated Texts
Authors: Feng Cao
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55094-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature America, Inc. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55722-3Published: 04 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55094-1Published: 20 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 227
Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Non-Western Philosophy, History of China, History of Philosophy