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Category: Classics

China/Classics/Games/Philosophy

Encountering Classical Chinese Philosophy Through Translation and a Text Adventure Game

Posted on January 28, 2018 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

Over winter break I usually spend a good deal of time with my nephew, codename Loke, now 11 years-old. Over the past few years, I have hidden a bonus Christmas ...

Books/Classics/Literature/Pedagogy/Teaching/Translation

Books with “Laozi” on the cover

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Konrad called my attention to Paul R. Goldin’s “Those Who Don’t Know Speak: Translations of the Daode Jing by People Who Do Not Know Chinese.”1 As you mig...

Books/Classics/Historiography

Chinese Canon wars

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

  From Xiaoqun Xu1  we get a wonderful description of a battle over the Chinese canon between Liang Qichao and Hu Shi. This took place in the pages of page...

Anecdotes/China/Classics

Confucius say….

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

For many years I have wanted to find a fortune cookie that actually had a piece of paper with “Confucius Say:…” followed by an actual quote fr...

China/Classics/English/Gender/Qin-Han/Teaching

Exemplary Women

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

A new translation of the Lienu zhuan is out, under the title Exemplary Women of Early China The book was compiled by Liu Xiang, mostly from older sources, so it...

Anecdotes/China/Classics/Pre-Han/Teaching

Ancient Music in the Academy

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Confucius liked to talk about Rites and Music. Thus I have to spend a lot of time explaining to students why. Most Americans are more like Mozi Mozi asked a Con...

China/Classics/Culture/East vs West/English

Ungraded Love or Double Standards? Stanley Fish, Stephen Asma, and Confucius

Posted on January 13, 2013 by C. W. Hayford / 4 Comments

Stanley Fish, no stranger to controversy, has a piece on the New York Times online blog, Opinionator, Favoritism Is Good (January 9, 2013). Fish is known for su...

Books/China/Classics/English/Historiography/Mongols and Mongolia

Reconsidering Marco Polo

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 11 Comments

“Marco Polo’s reports of China, now judged mostly hearsay….” Perry Anderson, LRB I got an email from a student who found my blog post in which...

Books/China/Classics/English/Qin-Han

Huainanzi

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

Columbia University Press is publishing a complete translation of the Huainanzi, a Han-dynasty compendium of philosophy and statecraft which has been of great i...

China/Classics/Current Events/English/Foreign Views/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Ming/Post-Mao

Zhou Confucianism? Ming Quality Control?

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

In an absolutely fascinating article on the modern petition redress system1 focusing on attempts by regional officials to prevent petitions from reaching a nati...

China/Classics/English

Like mixing water with water

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Students often come to classes on China looking for the Timeless Wisdom of the Easttm As a historian I tend to dislike giving it to them, since the point of his...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Classics/English

I like sex better than bear paws

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 9 Comments

Over at A Ku Indeed people, including myself, have been discussing Daniel Bell’s East Meets West which looks at the importation of foreign concepts of hum...

China/Classics/English/Historiography/Pre-Han

The origins of World Beat (Lu Buwei on music)

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I’ve been talking about rites and music in Xunzi. To sort of finish off I want to look at some stuff from Lu Buwei. For those of you who don’t know ...

China/Classics/English/Pre-Han

Contra Hip-Hop (Xunzi on Music)

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 9 Comments

As I discussed last time, Xunzi clearly saw ritual as important, but important in very different way from his predecessors. Yes, a gentleman should perform ritu...

China/Classics/English/Pre-Han/Teaching

Xunzi on ritual

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

Next semester I will be teaching about ritual, so I have been reading Xunzi on ritual and music. I’ve been using the Knoblock translation, which is wonder...

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