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This remarkably slim, elegant and pleasant to read volume sits as an attractive tip on an iceberg of painstaking work ... accessible and stimulating * Barbara Hendrischke, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society *

This remarkably slim, elegant and pleasant to read volume sits as an attractive tip on an iceberg of painstaking work ... accessible and stimulating Barbara Hendrischke, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

""This is an excellent study and translation of 'The Five Aspects of Conduct.' By comparing its key concepts with those in the transmitted texts, Holloway challenges the conventional view about discrete 'schools' of Chinese thought during the Warring States period. He has made a valuable contribution to the fields of Chinese religion and philosophy.""--Chun-fang Yu, Sheng Yen Professor of Chinese Buddhist Studies at Columbia University ""This is one of the most comprehensive studies of the Guodian corpus in English and at the same time one of the few to address all the texts discovered in the tomb as a unified collection. More than a decade after this marvelous discovery, many mysteries about the Guodian manuscripts remain; Kenneth W. Holloway's new book reconstructs what this combination of texts would have meant in its own intellectual context.""--Paul R. Goldin, Professor and Chair of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania ""In Guodian, Kenneth W. Holloway breaks new ground with his analysis of this recently recovered cache of classical Chinese texts, both in determining how they fit into the corpus of early philosophical literature, and what they can contribute to our understanding of Chinese philosophy and religion in its formative period. Selecting 'The Five Aspects of Conduct' from among these much-mined and disputed early materials as his focus, he assays its value, draws from it profound philosophical insights into the social project of personal cultivation, and extracts from this analysis a key for distinguishing among the various competing voices of this period. Comprehensive, critical, and cutting edge.""--Roger T. Ames, translator of Sun Tzu: The Art of Warfare and The Analects of Confucius

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Kenneth Holloway is Assistant Professor of History and Levenson Professor of Asian Studies, Florida Atlantic University.

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