Classifying the Zhuangzi Chapters
Classifying the Zhuangzi Chapters

Author: Xiaogan Liu

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2020-08-06

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0472901346

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The relationships, both historical and philosophical, among the Zhuangzi’s Inner, Outer, and Miscellaneous chapters are the subject of ancient and enduring controversy. Liu marshals linguistic, intertextual, intratextual, and historical evidence to establish an objectively demonstrable chronology and determine the philosophical affiliations among the various chapters. This major advance in Zhuangzi scholarship furnishes indispensable data for all students of the great Daoist text. In a lengthy afterword, Liu compares his conclusions with those of A. C. Graham and addresses the relationship between the Zhuangzi and the Laozi.

Reading the Dao
Reading the Dao

Author: Keping Wang

Publisher: Continuum

Published: 2011-02-03

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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An introductory guide to the Dao de Jing, exploring key themes and passages in this key work of Daoist thought.

The Maritime Political Boundaries of the World
The Maritime Political Boundaries of the World

Author: Victor Prescott

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 9047406206

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This book addresses the often vexed question of national maritime claims and the delimitation of international maritime boundaries. The number of undelimited international maritime boundaries is much larger than the number of agreed lines. The two boundaries that define the marine domain of coastal states are examined. First, the baselines along the coast may consist of low-water lines or straight lines or a combination of both. When straight lines are used they define the seaward limit of the state's internal waters. Second, the outer limits of claims to territorial seas, contiguous zones and exclusive economic zones are measured from the baselines. All states will have to delimit at least one international boundary with a neighbouring state, whether adjacent or opposite. In confined seas no state can claim the full entitlement and must negotiate international boundaries with all neighbours. Many states bordering oceans can claim the full entitlement seawards, although they will need to delimit national boundaries with adjacent neighbours.

China's Maritime Boundaries in the South China Sea
China's Maritime Boundaries in the South China Sea

Author: Jinming Li

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-29

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1000200760

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Maritime boundary disputes in the South China have existed for centuries, and researchers from a variety of countries have analysed the situation from a great many points of view. Yet, and despite its status as one of the major countries in the region, Chinese perspectives have often been absent from the international literature. This book redresses that balance. Bringing together scholarship from history and international law, this book provides a lens through which maritime territorial disputes in the South China Sea can be interrogated. Not only does it detail the historical and jurisprudential evidence that support maritime boundaries in the South China Sea for different stakeholders, but it also clarifies some misconceptions related to China’s nine-dash lines by referring to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Moreover, the book offers in-depth discussion and observation on the most recent developments in the South China Sea. This book is an essential resource for researchers, teachers and students who specialize in Southeast Asian Studies, China maritime studies, and the international law of the sea.

Boundaries in China
Boundaries in China

Author: John Hay

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780948462382

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Boundary making, a crucial element in human cultural creativity, links these essays exploring Chinese art and society. Traversing time and cultural category, individual expression and social construct, the authors demonstrate how a 'boundary' may exist simultaneously as barrier, threshold and interface. The essays range from the creation of the first political and bureaucratic boundaries in early China, to the dismantling of discursive boundaries in the post-Mao era. Spanning diverse subjects, moving between ancient funerary art and the tension between self and image in modern Peking Opera, they deftly explore the psychodynamics of Chinese society. All the authors in this book are established Sinologists. Boundaries in China will be stimulating reading for anyone interested to see how the seemingly tangential or peripheral can turn out to be of central concern in non-Western (and perhaps also Western) art and culture.

The Daode Jing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying
The Daode Jing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying

Author: Friederike Assandri

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 019087645X

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This book presents for the first time in English a complete translation of the Expository Commentary to the Daode jing written by the Daoist Cheng Xuanying in the 7th century CE. It includes a thorough introduction by the editor and translator that explores the origins of the commentary and its political and social context.

Proselytizing and the Limits of Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Asia
Proselytizing and the Limits of Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Asia

Author: Juliana Finucane

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-10-21

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 9814451185

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This volume brings together a range of critical studies that explore diverse ways in which processes of globalization pose new challenges and offer new opportunities for religious groups to propagate their beliefs in contemporary Asian contexts. Proselytizing tests the limits of religious pluralism, as it is a practice that exists on the border of tolerance and intolerance. The practice of proselytizing presupposes not only that people are freely-choosing agents and that religion itself is an issue of individual preference. At the same time, however, it also raises fraught questions about belonging to particular communities and heightens the moral stakes in involved in such choices. In many contemporary Asian societies, questions about the limits of acceptable proselytic behavior have taken on added urgency in the current era of globalization. Recognizing this, the studies brought together here serve to develop our understandings of current developments as it critically explores the complex ways in which contemporary contexts of religious pluralism in Asia both enable, and are threatened by, projects of proselytization.

Boundaries
Boundaries

Author: Arnold L. Sweeten

Publisher: Arnold L Sweeten

Published:

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Introduction to Boundaries This is a story about life, family, love, human path through the experiences of a young man of the first half of 8x. With the fierce inner struggles when standing on the threshold of life, entering the first love. Between good and evil, between angels and demons, love and instinct, sometimes just apart by a "Boundary" is fragile ... forced reason will have to choose... It was first set in 2001. At the beginning, the young man's perspectives are at puberty with sexual curiosities... And rekindled her first love with her classmate. Starting with the struggles between the true love and the opaque thoughts that exist in his mind, he will have to choose the right direction for himself to be able to express the instincts that exist in himself in the hope of finding a noble love ideal in life. What's he going to do? The true depictions will probably shock many people, but sex is not the mainstream of this work but it is just one of the factors that contribute to highlighting the theme of the work: "BOUNDARIES," emphasizing the contrast between two dark lights in each person. He also talks about love, but also about family feelings, friendships as students, and above all human love.... human affection in the hidden corners at the bottom of society, behind the grim fate ... Persistently read and feel...