The Craft of a Chinese Commentator: Wang Bi on the Laozi,9780791443958

The Craft of a Chinese Commentator: Wang Bi on the Laozi

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ISBN13: 9780791443958
ISBN10: 0791443957
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

Rudolf G. Wagner is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction 1(8)
Wang BI: A Biographical Sketch
9(18)
Wang Bi's Life
9(11)
Wang Bi's Afterlife
20(7)
The System of the Classics
27(26)
A Sketch of Commentary Strategies during the Han Dynasty
31(22)
Technique and the Philosophy of Structure: Interlocking Parallel Style in Laozi and Wang Bi
53(62)
Introduction
53(2)
The Discovery of Parallel Style in Western Scholarship
55(2)
The Problem: Molecular Coherence
57(5)
Open Interlocking Parallel Style in the Laozi
62(14)
Closed Interlocking Parallel Style in the Laozi
76(20)
Interlocking Parallel Style in Early Texts Outside the Laozi
96(9)
Interlocking Parallel Style in Wang Bi's Time
105(5)
Conclusion
110(5)
Demonstructing and Constructing Meaning
115(142)
The Hidden Meaning
115(5)
The Implied Author and His Authority: Kongzi and Laozi
120(19)
The Status of the Laozi and the Texts Ascribed to Confucius
139(3)
The Implied Reader and His Education
142(8)
The Countertexts
150(20)
The Homogeneity Hypothesis
170(6)
The Potentiality of the Text: Comparing Different Commentary Constructions of the Laozi
176(1)
Laozi 17.1
177(32)
Laozi 6
209(22)
Laozi 11
231(18)
Conclusions
249(8)
The Craft of Wang Bi's Commentary
257(44)
Introduction
257(1)
Integration of Commentary and Text
258(6)
Emphatic Rejection of Other Readings
264(2)
Explaining Metaphors, Similes, Comparisons, and Symbols
266(4)
Insertion of Subject
270(5)
Defining Terms through Equivalence
275(1)
Translating the Text
276(5)
Merging Terms and Structures
281(17)
Conclusions
298(3)
Notes 301(36)
Bibliography 337(14)
Subject Index 351

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