The Magnitude of Ming：Command, Allotment, and Fate in Chinese Culture 0824827392, 2004014194
Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiquitous as ming, variously understood as "command," "allotted li
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Table of contents :
Preface
Diverse Modes of Ming: An Introduction Christopher Lupke
Part I The Foundations of Fate Early Chinese Conceptions of Ming
1 Command and the Content of Tradition. David Schaberg
2 Following the Commands of Heaven： The Notion of Ming in Early China. Michael Puett
3 Languages of Fate: Semantic Fields in Chinese and Greek. Lisa Raphals
4 How to Steer through Life: Negotiating Fate in the Daybook. Mu-chou Poo
Part II Escape Attempts from Finitude Ming in the Later Han and Six Dynasties Period
5 Living oflF the Books: Fifty Ways to Dodge Ming in Early Medieval China. Robert Ford Company
6 Simple Twists of Fate: The Daoist Body and Its Ming. Stephen R. Bokenkamp
7 Multiple Vistas of Ming and Changing Visions of Life in the Works of Tao. Qian Zong-qi Cai
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： Laws, Ledgers, and the Changing Taxonomies of Fictional Production in Late Imperial China. Patricia Sieber
9 Fate and Transcendence in the Rhetoric of Myth and Ritual. P. Steven Sangren
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. Woei Lien Chong
11 Gendered Fate. Deirdre Sabina Knight
12 Divination： Modern Literary Representations of the Chinese Imagined Community. Christopher Lupke
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
