Guodian Laozi: Proceedings of the International Conference, Dartmouth College, May 1998 (Early China Special Monographs)

by Sarah Allan (Editor), Crispin Williams (Editor)

Overview

The first major publication in English on the bamboo slips excavated from a late fourth century B.C. Chu-state tomb at Guodian, Hubei, in 1993. The slip texts include both Daoist and Confucian works, many previously unknown. Thie monograph is a full account of the international conference held on these texts, at which leading scholars from China, the United States, Europe, and Japan analyzed the Laozi materials and a previously unknown cosmological text. In addition, the contents include nine essays on topics such as the archaeological background of the discovery, conservation of the slip-texts, and the relation of the Guodian Laozi materials to the received Laozi text. An annotated edition of the Guodian Laozi materials and the cosmological text are included, as well as a critical bibliography with summary of Chinese scholarship on the Guodian texts in the year following the conference.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557290694
Publisher:	Society for the Study of Early China
Publication date:	01/28/2000
Series:	Early China Special Monographs , #5
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	814,809
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.68(d)