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Category: Pre-Han

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...

Anecdotes/China/Intellectual/Pre-Han/Teaching

Mixing water with water

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Here is a dialogue (from the Zuozhuan) I used in class this week. The Duke declares “It is Ju alone who is in harmony with me.” Yanzi replied, “Ju is in f...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/English/Pre-Han

Bad sons

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Over at A Ku Indeed Chris asks about Mencius  4A28, in which Mencius commends Shun for transforming his father. He (Shun) considered that if one could not get t...

China/Current Events/Pre-Han

I may never have to teach again

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

As the Chinese movie industry gears up for a biopic on Confucius I get closer and closer to my goal of never having to do any work.  Soon I will be able to just...

China/English/Pre-Han

Management by Hard Liquor

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

A description of the administrative methods of the Han Dynasty chancellor Cao Shen Day and night he drank strong liquor. Everyone from the aristocratic high off...

Archaeology/China/English/Pre-Han/Teaching

You are nimble in warfare!

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

Two Western Zhou bronze inscriptions, both dating from around 850 B.C. and describing the war against the Xianyun1 It was the ninth month, first auspiciousness,...

China/English/Pre-Han

Meet the meat

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Foreigners have two contradictory images of “Chinese men”. One is the effeminate scholar with long fingernails and the other is the kung fu dude. Th...

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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