{"product_id":"beyond-the-troubled-water-of-lin-ma-9781438474830","title":"Beyond the Troubled Water of Shifei: From Disputation to Walking-Two-Roads in the Zhuangzi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOffers the first focused study of the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eshifei\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e debates of the Warring States period in ancient China and challenges the imposition of Western conceptual categories onto these debates.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent decades, a growing concern in studies in Chinese intellectual history is that Chinese classics have been forced into systems of classification prevalent in Western philosophy and thus imperceptibly transformed into examples that echo Western philosophy. Lin Ma and Jaap van Brakel offer a methodology to counter this approach, and illustrate their method by carrying out a transcultural inquiry into the complexities involved in understanding \u003ci\u003eshi\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003efei\u003c\/i\u003e and their cognate phrases in the Warring States texts, the \u003ci\u003eZhuangzi\u003c\/i\u003e in particular. The authors discuss important features of Zhuangzi's stance with regard to language-meaning, knowledge-doubt, questioning, equalizing, and his well-known deconstruction of the discourse in ancient China on \u003ci\u003eshifei\u003c\/i\u003e. Ma and van Brakel suggest that \u003ci\u003eshi\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003efei\u003c\/i\u003e apply to both descriptive and prescriptive languages and do not presuppose any fact\/value dichotomy, and thus cannot be translated as either true\/false or right\/wrong. Instead, \u003ci\u003eshi\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003efei\u003c\/i\u003e can be grasped in terms of a pre-philosophical notion of fitting. Ma and van Brakel also highlight Zhuangzi's idea of \"walking-two-roads\" as the most significant component of his stance. In addition, they argue that all of Zhuangzi's positive recommendations are presented in a language whose meaning is not fixed and that every stance he is committed to remains subject to fundamental questioning as a way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lin Ma,Jaap Van Brakel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438474830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438474830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Lin Ma","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088258052351,"sku":"9781438474830","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_04880220-48a4-4a96-a4a6-cee80fa2232d.jpg?v=1769103912","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beyond-the-troubled-water-of-lin-ma-9781438474830","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}