Imagining boundaries
Subtitle: changing Confucian doctrines, texts, and hermeneutics
By: edited by Kai-wing Chow, On-cho Ng, and John B. Henderson.
Contributors: Chow, Kai-wing, 1951-; Ng, On Cho, 1953-; Henderson, John B., 1948-
Series: Suny series in Chinese philosophy and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press; SUNY Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Confucianism.
Other titles: Changing Confucian doctrines, texts, and hermeneutics
Description: "Imagining Boundaries explores the mapping of the intellectual tradition of Confucianism in Chinese history. The authors show that the Confucian tradition is not a neatly packaged organic whole in which the constitutive parts fall naturally into place, but rather that it displays the ruptures of all cultural constructions. Accordingly, Confucianism has been configured and reconfigured in time in response to changing intellectual and historical circumstances."--BOOK JACKET.

"This anthology addresses the constant negotiation of the boundaries of Confucianism within itself and in relation to other intellectual traditions, the fluidity of the Confucian canon, the dialogical relations between text and discourse in establishing boundaries for the Confucian tradition, and the textual and discursive strategies employed in the imagining of boundaries, which expanded or restricted the intellectual space of Confucianism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-249) and index.