Excavated Texts and a New Portrait of the Early Confucians

The author, Wang Zhongjiang, has a Ph.D. in Chinese philosophy from Peking University where he is currently a professor. He is the author of numerous articles and several books. The translator, Kevin J. Turner, has his M.A. from PKU where he is pursuing his Ph.D.

The “Ren” of the “Unity of Mind and Body” and Confucian Virtue Ethics— the Structure of Confucian Benevolence and the Guodian Manuscript’s Character of “Ren” – The Model of Human Nature and View on the Way of Humanity in the Xing zi Ming Chu— an Explanation of the Concepts of “Xing,” “Qing,” “Xin,” and “Dao” – The Concept of “De” in the Bamboo and Silk Wuxing – The Early Confucian “Theory of Shendu,” “Moral Study for Oneself,” and “Public Concern” – The Confucians’ Theory of Moral Autonomy, View on Circumstance, and Qiongda yi Shi – The Origin of the Confucian Hermeneutics of the Classics – A New Understanding of the Shanghai Museum’s Shizhuan and the Confucian Education of the Shi – Kongzi’s “Delighting in the Yijing,” Explaining the Yijing, and the Search for “Virtue and Meaning”— Centering on the Phrase “the Master Said” in the Silk “Commentaries to the Yijing” – Tang Yu zhi Dao and the Multifaceted Transference of Kingly Power – The Shuihudi Qin Bamboo Manuscript Weili zhi Dao and the Confucian Style Political Ethics in the State of Qin.