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Gan, Xu; Makeham, John; Xu, Gan Balanced Discourses
Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A. Yale Univ. Press 2003 0300092016 / 9780300092011 First American Edition Hard Cover New New
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Clean bright copy. Clean. New, 366 pages including index, a bilingual edition; No remainder mark, from the flap: Written by the Han philosopher Xu Gan (a.d. 170-217), Balance Discourses is an inquiry into the courses of political breakdown, It provides a unique contemporary account of the social, intellectual, and cosmological factors that XU Gan identified as having precipitated the demise of the Han Dynasty. This edition of Zhanglun (Balanced Discourses) contains the original Chinese text with annotations and on facing pages, an English translation also with annotation. This Collection of essays spans a range of topics, from Confucian cultivation to calendrical calculation. Xu's perspectives are of not only historical but also philosophical interest, for they reveal his belief in a special correlative bond that should exist between names and actualities and his understanding of what happens when that bond is broken. The translator, Jon Makeham, argues in his introduction that the essays display the same quality of balance that Xu Gan sees as essential to social and political equilibrium. Ships within two days Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Philosophy & Ethics Asian Studies ISBN: 0300092016 Inventory No: 000379. Hardcover
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14.70 USD
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