Self-Cultivation in Early China (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781438488332)

Self-Cultivation in Early China is an introduction to multiple aspects of the foundational practice of self-cultivation in early China (c.1000 to 100 BCE). Drawing on the Chinese classics and the dozens of scholars' texts (both received and excavated) that together form the basis of intellectual history for China and all of East Asia, the book's analysis relies on the topics and categories that were central to the thought of these authors, including such well-known thinkers as Confucius and Laozi. This book describes a salient point of view from which we may consider the broader landscape of Chinese intellectual history and presents an important paradigm of the scholarly Chinese worldview that is ideal for comparison with paradigms in other communities, ancient or modern, across the globe.

Author: Paul Fischer
ISBN-10: 1438488335
ISBN-13: 9781438488332
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2022
Pages: 354
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d