Ways with words
Subtitle: writing about reading texts from early China
By: edited by Pauline Yu ... [et. al].
Contributors: Yu, Pauline, 1949-
Series: Studies on China ;; 24
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Books and reading -- China.; Books -- China -- Reviews.; Humanities -- China.
Genres: Reviews.
Other titles: Writing about reading texts from early China
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ABBREVIATIONS / xiii; title: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS / ix; title: Introduction: Reading Texts in the Chinese Humanities / r; title: CHAPTER 1. Sheng min (Shijing [Classic of Poetry],; title: Mao 245: "Birth of the People"); title: Translations; title: Bernhard Karlgren / II; title: Stephen Owen / 12; title: Questions about the Language of Sheng min; title: David R Knechtges / 14; title: Interpreting Sheng min; title: Stephen Owen / 25; title: Reading Sheng min; title: Willard Peterson / 31; title: Perspective on Readings of Sheng min; title: Pauline Yu / 34; title: CHAPTER 2. Mencius2A.2; title: Translation; title: D. C. Lau / 41; title: Are You a Sage?; title: Willard Peterson / 45; title: "There Has Never Been One Greater Than Confucius"; title: Peter Bol / 49; title: Perspective on Readings of Mencius 2A.2; title: Stephen Owen / 54; title: CHAPTER 3. Qi wu lun (Zhuangzi: "Seeing Things as Equal"); title: Translation: "The Sorting Which Evens Things Out"; title: A. C. Graham / 58; title: Look at the Finger, Not Where It Is Pointing; title: Stephen H. West / 71; title: Vision and Identity in Qi wu lun; title: Martin Powers / 78; title: On Making Noise in Qi wu lun; title: Waiyee Li / 93; title: Perspective on Readings of Qi wu lun: I Am Not Dreaming This; title: Willard Peterson / lo3; title: CHAPTER 4. Heart Sutra (Xinjing); title: Translations; title: Stephen F Teiser / II3; title: Stephen H. West / 1I6; title: The Heart Sutra; title: Michael A. Fuller / 118; title: Heart Stutra; title: Stephen H. West / 121; title: Perspective on Readings of the Heart Stutra: The Perfection; title: of Wisdom and the Fear of Buddhism; title: Stephen F Teiser / I30; title: CHAPTER 5. ZijingfuFengxianyonghuai wu baizi; title: (Du Fu, "Going from the Capital to Fengxian"); title: Translation; title: Stephen Owen / 146; title: What's in a Title? "Expressing My Feelings on Going from the Capital to Fengxian; title: Prefecture: Five Hundred Characters" by Du Fu; title: David R Knechtges / 149; title: Du Fu, "Song of My Cares en Route from the Capital to Fengxian"; title: Lynn Struve / 160; title: The Crisis of Witnessing in Du Fu's "A Song of My Thoughts When Going; title: from the Capital to Fengxian: Five Hundred Words"; title: Waiyee Li / i65; title: Perspective on Readings of Du Fu, Zijingfu Fengxian yong huai wu bai zi; title: Stephen Owen / 170; title: CHAPTER 6. Yingyingzhuan (Yuan Zhen, "Biography of Yingying"); title: Translation; title: Stephen Owen / I73; title: The Story of Yingying; title: Pauline Yu / i82; title: Mixture of Genres and Motives for Fiction in 'Yingying's Story"; title: WaiyeeLi / I85; title: On Yingying zhuan, by Yuan Zhen; title: Katherine Carlitz / 192; title: Perspective on Readings of Yingying zhuan; title: PeterBol / 198; title: CHAPTER 7. Bifaji (Jing Hao, "Notes on the Method for the Brush"); title: Translation and Commentary; title: Stephen H. West / 202; title: Bifaji; title: Stephen Owen / 213; title: How To Read a Chinese Painting: Jing Hao's Bifaji; title: Martin Powers / 219; title: Perspective on Readings of "The Record of the Method of the Brush"; title: Willard Peterson / 236; title: GLOSSARY / 245; title: CHINESE TEXTS / 261; title: CONTRIBUTORS / 277; title: INDEX / 279.