The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China
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As early as the Warring States period in China (fourth through third centuries B.C.), debates arose concerning how and under what circumstances new institutions could be formed and legitimated. But the debates quickly encompassed more than just legitimation. Larger issues came to the fore: Can a sage innovate? If so, under what conditions? Where did human culture originally come from? Was it created by human sages? Is it therefore an artificial...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0804736235
ISBN13:9780804736237
Release Date:August 2002
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:1.22 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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