$a "湮没的思想:出土竹简中的禅让传说与理想政制",结合新出竹简,探讨战国时期思想家们关于禅让传说与理想政制的阐发.由于艾兰教授有着深厚的文献学,考古学和古文字学素养,因而文集中所收的作品,在吸收了大量新材料的基础上,结合西方新理论如结构主义等,融会贯通,新意迭出,创见尤多.本书是以新公布的战国竹简为主要依据进行文献释读的学术专著,对20世纪初期古史辨运动以降有关传世文献和历史的争议的进一步分析,考证,释读.

"This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the accounts of change of rule in Chinese texts from 600 to 100 BC, including the core philosophical works of the Chinese tradition attributed to Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Xunzi, Hanfeizi, and Zhuangzi. Drawing from the early structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss, Sarah Allan demonstrates that similar motifs repeat in every period, and argues that they serve, like myth, to mediate the inherent social conflict between kinship relations and that of the larger community."--Page 4 of cover.

• History and historical legend
• The Chu-script bamboo-slip manuscripts
• Advocating abdication : Tang Yú Zhi Dao, "The way of Tang Yao and Yú Shun"
• Tang Yú Zhi Dao : translation and Chinese edition
• The Zigao and the nature of early Confucianism
• Zigao : translation and Chinese edition
• Rongchengshi : abdication and utopian vision
• Rongchengshi : translation and Chinese edition
• The Bao Xun : obtaining the center to become king
• Bao Xun : translation and Chinese edition
• Afterthoughts.

"Four Warring States texts discovered during the late twentieth-century challenge longstanding understandings of Chinese intellectual history. The discovery of previously unknown philosophical texts from the Axial Age is revolutionizing our understanding of Chinese intellectual history. Buried Ideas presents and discusses four texts found on brush-written slips of bamboo and their seemingly unprecedented political philosophy. Written in the regional script of Chu during the Warring States period (475-221 BCE), all of the works discuss Yao's abdication to Shun and are related to but differ significantly from the core texts of the classical period, such as the Mencius and Zhuangzi. Notably, these works evince an unusually meritocratic stance, and two even advocate abdication over hereditary succession as a political ideal. Sarah Allan includes full English translations and her own modern-character editions of the four works examined: Tang Yú zhi dao, Zi Gao, Rongchengshi, and Bao xun. In addition, she provides an introduction to Chu-script bamboo-slip manuscripts and the complex issues inherent in deciphering them"--From publisher's website.

• History and historical legend
• The Chu-script bamboo-slip manuscripts
• Advocating abdication : Tang Yú Zhi Dao, "The way of Tang Yao and Yú Shun"
• Tang Yú Zhi Dao : translation and Chinese edition
• The Zigao and the nature of early Confucianism
• Zigao : translation and Chinese edition
• Rongchengshi : abdication and utopian vision
• Rongchengshi : translation and Chinese edition
• The Bao Xun : obtaining the center to become king
• Bao Xun : translation and Chinese edition
• Afterthoughts.

"Four Warring States texts discovered during the late twentieth-century challenge longstanding understandings of Chinese intellectual history. The discovery of previously unknown philosophical texts from the Axial Age is revolutionizing our understanding of Chinese intellectual history. Buried Ideas presents and discusses four texts found on brush-written slips of bamboo and their seemingly unprecedented political philosophy. Written in the regional script of Chu during the Warring States period (475-221 BCE), all of the works discuss Yao's abdication to Shun and are related to but differ significantly from the core texts of the classical period, such as the Mencius and Zhuangzi. Notably, these works evince an unusually meritocratic stance, and two even advocate abdication over hereditary succession as a political ideal. Sarah Allan includes full English translations and her own modern-character editions of the four works examined: Tang Yú zhi dao, Zi Gao, Rongchengshi, and Bao xun. In addition, she provides an introduction to Chu-script bamboo-slip manuscripts and the complex issues inherent in deciphering them"--Publisher's website.

• Early humans in China
• The beginning of farming
• The Yangshao period : prosperity and the transformation of prehistoric society civilization
• The formation of civilization : the Longshan period and its interaction sphere
• The rise of kings and the formation of city-states
• Chinese society during the Bronze age and the Three dynasties
• The eastern Zhou
• Unification of China.

Palaeolithic sites from one million years ago, Neolithic sites with extraordinary jade and ceramic artefacts, excavated tombs and palaces of the Zhou and Shang dynasties - all these are part of the archaeological riches of China. This is a survey of China's archaeological remains, in the process rewriting the early history of the world's most enduring civilization. Scholars from China and America show how archaeological evidence proves that Chinese culture did not spread from a single central area, as has previously been assumed, but emerged out of geographically diverse, interacting Neolithic cultures. Taking us into the great archaeological finds of the past 100 years - tombs, temples, palaces, cities - they seek to shed light on many aspects of Chinese life. Featuring hundreds of reproductions of archaeological discoveries, this should be a useful resource for anyone interested in Chinese antiquity.
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