Dao Companion to the Excavated Guodian Bamboo Manuscripts

Shirley Chan is Associate Professor and Head of Chinese Studies of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She specializes in researches on ancient Chinese culture covering philosophy, textual studies, intellectual history, and excavated bamboo manuscripts, on which she has published extensively in both English and Chinese. She has been invited to appear in programs produced by the BBC, ABC and SBS on traditional Chinese thought and culture. Professor Chan has served as President of Chinese Studies Association of Australia and member of Editorial Board of several international journals including the Bamboo and Silk (Brill) and the Journal of Oriental Society of Australia.

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Excavated Guodian Bamboo Manuscripts (Shirley Chan).- Part 1. A Philological Reading of the Guodian Manuscripts: The Texts and Textual Formation.- Chapter 2. The Guodian Laozi Materials (Franklin Perkins).- Chapter 3. On Citation Practices in the Guodian Manuscripts (HE Ruyue and Michael Nylan).- Chapter 4. Shu (Documents) Repertoire in Argument-Based Texts from Guodian: The Case of Cheng zhi (Things Brought to Completion) (Dirk Meyer).- Chapter 5. How to Achieve Good Governance-Arguments in the Tang Yu zhi dao (The Ways of Yao and Shun) and the Zhong xin zhi dao (The Ways of Uprightness and Reliability) (Michael Schimmelpfennig).- Chapter 6. Which Comes First? Dao or De : Evidence from Guodian Manuscripts (Constance A. Cook).- Chapter 7. Reading heng cheng in the Guodian Bamboo Text Lu Mu Gong wen Zisi (Duke Mu of Lu Asked Zisi) (LIAO Mingchun).- Part 2. Philosophical Concepts and Arguments in the Guodian Manuscripts.- Chapter 8. The Taiyi shengshui Cosmogony and Its Role in Early Chinese Thought (Erica Brindley).- Chapter 9. Daoist Philosophy as Viewed from the Guodian Manuscripts (Barbara Hendrischke).- Chapter 10. "Sagacity" and the Heaven-Human Relationship in the Wuxing (Erica Brindley).- Chapter 11. The Qiong da yi shi (Poverty or Success Is a Matter of Timing) and the Concept of Heaven and Humans in Early Confucianism (LIANG Tao).- Chapter 12. Xing and Qing : Human Nature and Moral Cultivation in the Guodian Text Xing zi ming chu (Nature Derives from Endowment) (Shirley Chan).- Chapter 13. Body and Mind in the Guodian Manuscripts (Lisa Raphals).- Chapter 14. Daoist Nature or Confucian Nurture: Moral Development in the Yucong (Thicket of Sayings) (Shirley Chan).- Chapter 15. The Debate over Coercive Rulership and the "Human Way" in Light of Recently Excavated Warring States Texts (Updated) (Scott Cook).- Chapter 16. The Guodian Confucian Texts and the Xunzi (TANG Siufu).- Chapter 17. From the Liu wei (Six Positions) Discussed in the Liu de (Six Virtues) to the San gang (Three Principles of Social Order) (LI Rui).- Chapter 18. Guodian: A New Window for Understanding the Introduction of Buddhism into China (Kenneth W. Holloway).

"The present volume plunges the reader head-on into one of the most exciting recent findings in the field of Chinese cultural history ... . The current companion, which is an outstanding collaborative enterprise made by expert contributors coming from diverse fields of Sinology ... . Since the bamboo slips date back to the philosophically extremely rich Warring States period of Chinese history, it uniquely displays the important philosophical and religious disputes of the era ... ." (Lehel Balogh, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 46 (1), March, 2020)

“The present volume plunges the reader head-on into one of the most exciting recent findings in the field of Chinese cultural history … . The current companion, which is an outstanding collaborative enterprise made by expert contributors coming from diverse fields of Sinology … . Since the bamboo slips date back to the philosophically extremely rich Warring States period of Chinese history, it uniquely displays the important philosophical and religious disputes of the era … .” (Lehel Balogh, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 46 (1), March, 2020)