Chinese Ideas About Nature and Society: Studies in Honour of Derk Bodde

8vo large,hardcover i dust jacket, 360 pages. contents: Biography of Derk Bodde / Adele Rickett -- The first Neo-Confucianism : an introduction to Yang Hsiung's 'Canon of supreme mystery' (T'ai hsuan ching, c. 4 B.C.) / Michael Nylan and Nathan Sivin -- Symbolic expressions of Ying[sic]-Yang philosophy / Schuyler Cammann -- From ontology to cosmogony : notes on Chuang Tzu and Huai-nan Tzu / Charles Le Blanc -- The role of compromise in Chinese culture / Herrlee H. Creel -- 'Yen Ch'a-san thrice tested' : printed novel to oral tale / Susan Blader -- Living with the Chinese : the Muslim experience in China, T'ang to Ming / Donald Daniel Leslie -- The cult of the dragon and the invocation for rain / Michael Loewe -- Shih chi 127, the symbiosis of two historians / Timoteus Pokora -- Kuan-tzu and the newly discovered texts on bamboo and silk / W. Allyn Rickett -- The functions of the commandant of justice during the Han period / A.F.P. HulsewÈ -- Pan Ku's accusations against Wang Mang / Hans Bielenstein -- The concept of doubt in T'ang criminal law / Wallace Johnson -- The meaning of Hsing-te / John S. Major -- The fire-lance, ancestor of all gun-barrels / Joseph Needham.