This collection of twenty-one articles represents some of the major writings by one of the United States' leading Sinologists, Derk Bodde.

Originally published in 1982.

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Derk Bodde

Inhalt

• FrontMatter,
• Contents,
• Preface,
• Chronology of Chinese Dynasties,
• Foreword,
• Introduction: The Essays Reassessed,
• 1. Introduction to the History of China,
• 2. The Chinese Language as a Factor in Chinese Cultural Continuity (1942),
• 3. Myths of Ancient China (1961),
• 4. Feudalism in China (1956),
• 5. Dominant Ideas in the Formation of Chinese Culture (1942),
• 6. Types of Chinese Categorical Thinking (1939),
• 7. Authority and Law in Ancient China (1954),
• 8. Basic Concepts of Chinese Law: the Genesis and Evolution of Legal Thought in Traditional China (1963),
• 9. Prison Life in Eighteenth Century Peking (1969),
• 10. Henry A. Wallace and the Ever-normal Granary (1946),
• 11. Harmony and Conflict in Chinese Philosophy (1953),
• 12. Chinese "Laws of Nature": a Reconsideration (1979),
• 13. The Chinese View of Immortality: Its Expression by Chu Hsi and Its Relationship to Buddhist Thought (1942),
• 14. Some Chinese Tales of the Supernatural: Kan Pao and His Sou-shen chi (1942),
• 15. The Chinese Cosmic Magic Known as Watching for the Ethers(1959),
• 16. Sexual Sympathetic Magic in Han China (1964),
• 17. A Perplexing Passage in the Confucian Analects (1933),
• 18. Two New Translations of Lao Tzu (1954),
• 19. On Translating Chinese Philosophic Terms (1955),
• 20. Lieh-tzu and the Doves: a Problem of Dating (1959),
• 21. Marshes in Mencius and Elsewhere: a Lexicographical Note (1978),
• Bibliography of Derk Bodde,
• Index,