How Chinese is contemporary Chinese art? Treasured by collectors, critics, and art world cognoscenti, this art developed within an avant-garde that looked West to find a language to strike out against government control. Traditionally, Chinese artistic expression has been related to the structure and function of the Chinese language and the assumptions of Chinese natural cosmology. Is contemporary Chinese art rooted in these traditions or is it an example of cultural self-colonization? Contributors to this volume address this question, going beyond the more obvious political and social commentaries on contemporary Chinese art to find resonances between contemporary artistic ideas and the indigenous sources of Chinese cultural self-understanding. Focusing in particular on the acclaimed artist Xu Bing, this book looks at how he and his peers have navigated between two different cultural sites to establish a third place, a place from which to appropriate Western ideas and use them to address centuries-old Chinese cultural issues within a Chinese cultural discourse.

Product Description: Few if any philosophical schools have championed family values as persistently as the early Confucians, and a great deal can be learned by attending to what they had to say on the subject. In the Confucian tradition, human morality and the personal realization it inspires are grounded in the cultivation of family feeling...read more

Product Description: Chapters included in Part One, "Education, Relationality, and Diversity," examine the growing intellectual awareness of a pervasive interdependence amid diversity in all aspects of the human experience brought on by the unrelenting processes of globalization...read more

Product Description: This volume examines the values that have historically guided the negotiation of identity, both practical and ideal, in Chinese Confucian culture, considers how these values play into the conception and exercise of authority, and assesses their contemporary relevance in a rapidly globalizing world...read more

A groundbreaking new translation of the most important text in Chinese spirituality, derived from the recently discovered Guodian Bamboo Texts, introduces a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and moral behavior and is accompanied by authoritative commentary on the the influential document. Reprint.

A groundbreaking new translation of the most important text in Chinese spirituality, derived from the recently discovered Guodian Bamboo Texts, introduces a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and moral behavior and is accompanied by authoritative commentary on the influential document. Read by Ralph Lowenstein.

Product Description: A groundbreaking new translation of the most important text in Chinese spirituality, derived from the recently discovered Guodian Bamboo Texts, introduces a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and moral behavior and is accompanied by authoritative commentary on the influential document...read more

A groundbreaking new translation of the most important text in Chinese spirituality, derived from the recently discovered Guodian Bamboo Texts, introduces a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and moral behavior and is accompanied by authoritative commentary on the the influential document.

Based on the oldest extant version of Confucius's most influential text, this translation of the Analects serves as an authentic introduction to Confucian thought.

Product Description: Chinese philosophy specialists examine the Zhuangzi, a third century B.C.E. Daoist classic, in this collection of interpretive essays. The Zhuangzi is a celebration of human creativity--its language is lucid and opaque; its images are darkly brilliant; its ideas are seriously playful...read more

A classic work of Daoist poetry, philosophy, and political science, offered for the first time in a dual English/Chinese edition, provides a fascinating glimpse into the intellectual culture of the ancient Han dynasty. Original.

This is the third in a series dealing with the concept of self and its importance in understanding Chinese, Japanese, and Indian cultures. The authors examine the relationship between self and image and its significance in attaining a deeper knowledge of Chinese, Japanese, and Indian cultures. The relationship between self and image is as complex as it is fascinating. It takes on different meanings and significances in diverse cultures. In this volume, the focus of attention is largely on representational practices and symbolic media, such as literature, cinema, art, and dance. By examining both classical and contemporary works associated with China, India, and Japan, the authors seek, on the one hand, to demonstrate the intricate relationship between self and image and, on the other, to make use of that relationship to further our understanding of these cultures.

Product Description: This volume contains essays by a range of distinguished philosophers on the problem of self-deception, or rather, self and deception. The work proceeds from the assumption that changing constructions of self within Western cultures, and alternative notions of self in other cultures requires that we rethink traditional strategies for explaining the phenomenon of self-deception...read more

A new translation of the ancient Chinese manuscript on the principles, techniques, and tactics of war, a work lost for two millennia and rediscovered only in 1972, is accompanied by extensive notes and an introduction to the life and times of the great military innovator.

Product Description: This book shows that failure to assess the significant cultural differences between China and the West has seriously affected our understanding of both classical and contemporary China, and makes the translation of attitudes, concepts, and issues extremely problematic...read more

Product Description: Treats the nature and ethical significance of emotions from a comparative cultural perspective emphasizing Asian traditions.This book broadens the inquiry into emotion to comprehend a comparative cultural outlook. It begins with an overview of recent work in the West, and then proceeds to the main business of scrutinizing various relevant issues from both Asian and comparative perspectives...read more