The Magnitude of Ming: Command, Allotment, and Fate in Chinese Culture 9780824873981

Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiquitous as ming, variously understood as command, allotted lifespan, fate,

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The Magnitude of Ming: Command, Allotment, and Fate in Chinese Culture
9780824873981

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Christopher Lupke (editor)

Table of contents :
Contents
PREFACE
Diverse Modes of Ming
Part I. The Foundations of Fate
1. Command and the Content of Tradition
2. Following the Commands of Heaven: The Notion of Ming in Early China
3. Languages of Fate: Semantic Fields in Chinese and Greek
4. How to Steer through Life: Negotiating Fate in the Daybook
Part II. Escape Attempts from Finitude
5. Living off the Books: Fifty Ways to Dodge Ming in Early Medieval China
6. Simple Twists of Fate
7. Multiple Vistas of Ming and Changing Visions of Life in the Works of Tao Qian
Part III. Reversals of Fortune and Reversals of Reality The Literary Career of Ming in Late Imperial Fiction and Drama
8. Turning Lethal Slander into Generative Instruction
9. Fate and Transcendence in the Rhetoric of Myth and Ritual
Part IV. Determinism's Progress Voluntarism, Gender, and the Fate of the Nation in Modern China
10. Hubris in Chinese Thought: A Theme in Post-Mao Cultural Criticism
11. Gendered Fate
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX

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