Description

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The Guodian corpus is a cache of literary and philosophical texts discovered in a Warring States-period tomb in Hubei Province. Through detailed decipherment of individual characters and phrases, this book investigates the philosophical import of these texts, and proposes their association with Zisi, the famous grandson of Confucius. Huang also discusses the connection of the Guodian texts with early intellectual tradition of Xunzi, Mencius, Confucius, and the legendary Laozi, as well as the process of rewriting that transformed Zisi's original teachings into a conformist line of thinking at that time.

About the Author

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Kuan-yun Huang received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago and is now Associate Professor in Department of Chinese Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University. His research focuses on early Chinese paleography, intellectual history, literature, and newly excavated texts. He is also the author of A Walk in the Night with Zhuangzi: Meditations on an Ancient Chinese Manuscript (State University of New York Press, forthcoming).