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Tables of Contents for The Guodian Laozi
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
7
Sarah Allan
SECTION 1: Background Papers
7
106
Sarah Allan
Crispin Williams
A Brief Account of the Origins and Development of Chu Culture
9
14
Li Boqian
An Overview of Tomb Number One at Jingmen Guodian
23
10
Liu Zuxin
Post-Excavation Work on the Guodian Bamboo-Slip Laozi: A Few Points of Explanation
33
6
Peng Hao
The Study of Early Chinese Manuscripts: Methodological Preliminaries
39
14
William G. Boltz
On the Analysis and Transcription of Early Chinese Characters: Examples from the Guodian Laozi
53
12
Qiu Xigui
Some Observations concerning the Transcription and Punctuation of the Guodian Laozi
65
6
Gao Ming
Some Methodological Issues in the Study of the Guodian Laozi Parallels
71
18
Harold D. Roth
On the Formal Treatment of Textual Testimony
89
18
P. M. Thompson
The Confucian Texts from Guodian Tomb Number One: Their Date and Significance
107
6
Li Xueqin
SECTION II: An Account of the Discussion
113
72
Sarah Allan
Crispin Williams
Sarah Allan
Roger Ames
William G. Boltz
Cai Min
Carine Defoort
Chen Guying
Gao Ming
Donald Harper
Robert Henricks
Ikeda Tomohisa
Marc Kalinowski
Li Boqian
Li Jinyun
Li Ling
Li Xueqin
Liu Zuxin
Andrew Meyer
Peng Hao
Qiu Xigui
Isabelle Robinet
Harold Roth
Edmund Ryden
Paul M. Thompson
Rudolf Wagner
Wang Bo
Wang Tao
Susan R. Weld
Crispin Williams
Xing Wen
Xu Aixian
Xu Kangsheng
Xu Shaohua
Robin Yates
The Tomb and Its Contents
117
9
The robbery
117
1
Dating
118
3
Ordering the slips and preparing the publication
121
2
The identity of the tomb occupant
123
2
The slips in the context of the tomb
125
1
The Laozi
126
36
Textual analysis
129
4
Methodology in graphic analysis
129
2
Collation and comparison of editions
131
2
The scribes
133
1
Punctuation and the question of chapter division
134
8
Punctuation
135
1
Chapter divisions
135
1
The ``tadpole'' symbol
136
2
Divisions and sequences
138
4
Relationship to the received Laozi
142
4
Text structure
146
8
Themes
154
4
Particular concepts
158
2
(a)
158
1
(b)
159
1
(c)
159
1
(d)
160
1
(e)
160
1
Philosophical stance
160
2
Other Texts and the Question of Philosophical Schools
162
23
Tai Yi Sheng Shui
162
9
Wu Xing
171
6
Comparison with the Mawangdui Wu Xing
171
3
Philosophical content and school affiliation
174
3
The relationship of the Wu Xing to the Laozi
177
1
Tang Yu zhi Dao and Zhong Xin zhi Dao
177
2
Yu Cong
179
1
The question of philosophical schools
179
3
Concluding Remarks
182
3
SECTION III: Edition of the Bamboo-Slip Laozi A, B, and C, and Tai Yi Sheng Shui from Guodian Tomb Number One
185
48
Edmund Ryden
Guodian Laozi A
195
20
Guodian Laozi B
215
8
Guodian Laozi C
223
5
Tai Yi Sheng Shui
228
5
SECTION IV: Supplementary Materials
233
34
Additional Textual Notes
235
3
Gao Ming
235
1
Xing Wen
235
1
Xu Kangsheng
236
1
Qiu Xigui
236
2
Afterthoughts
238
5
Reinterpreting chapter 25
238
1
Roger Ames
Bruce Brooks' theory of accretion
239
1
Carine Defoort
Arrangement of bamboo slips in Cheng Zhi Wen Zhi and Xing Zi Ming Chu
240
1
Li Xueqin
On C 1:1 to 3:22 (Received text chapters 17, 18)
240
1
Rudolf Wagner
The case of and the problem of chapter division
241
2
Wang Tao
Scholarship on the Guodian Texts in China: A Review Article
243
15
Xing Wen
Bibliography of Chinese Literature on the Guodian Texts
258
9
INDEX
267
Citations from the Guodian Laozi
285