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David N. Keightley's seminal essays on the origins of Chinese society are brought together in one volume.

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Author:   David N. Keightley ,  Henry Rosemont, Jr. ,  Henry Rosemont, Jr.
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.485kg
ISBN:  

9781438447469

ISBN 10:   1438447469
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   02 July 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Transcription Conversion Table Part I: What Makes China Chinese? 1. Archaeology and Mentality: The Making of China 2. Early Civilization in China: Reflections on How it Became Chinese 3. What Did Make the Chinese ""Chinese""? Some Geographical Perspectives Part II: Religion, Metaphysics, and Theology 4. The Religious Commitment: Shang Theology and the Genesis of Chinese Political Culture 5. Late Shang Divination: The Magico-Religious Legacy 6. Shang Divination and Metaphysics 7. The Making of The Ancestors: Late Shang Religion and Its Legacy Part III: On Writing Inscriptions 8. Theology and the Writing of History: Truth and the Ancestors in the Wu Ding Divination Records 9. Marks and Labels: Early Writing in Neolithic and Shang China Part IV: Early China/Early Greece 10. Clean Hands and Shining Helmets: Heroic Action in Early Chinese and Greek Culture 11. Epistemology in Cultural Context: Disguise and Deception in Early China and Early Greece Part V: A Lighter Touch 12. Notes and Comments: ""There Was an Old Man of Chang'an..."": Limericks and the Teaching of Early Chinese History Bibliography of the Writings of David N. Keightley Index

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...These Bones Shall Rise Again poses a powerful argument for the diachronic coherence of Chinese cultural history ... Keightley's volume deserves a place in the discussion of how Sinology is to be construed and pursued in the coming decades. - Monumenta Serica

Author Information

David N. Keightley is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Ancestral Landscape: Time, Space, and Community in Late Shang China (ca. 1200-1045 B.C.) and Sources of Shang History: The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of Bronze Age China, and the editor of The Origins of Chinese Civilization. Henry Rosemont Jr. is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at St. Mary's College of Maryland and currently Visiting Scholar of Religious Studies at Brown University. His books include Rationality and Religious Experience: The Continuing Relevance of the World's Spiritual Traditions and, with Roger T. Ames, The Chinese Classic of Family Reverence: A Philosophical Translation of the Xiaojing.

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