Guodian: The Newly Discovered Seeds of Chinese Religious and Political Philosophy

by Kenneth Holloway

In 300 BCE, the tutor of the heir-apparent to the Chu throne was laid to rest in a tomb at Jingmen, Hubei province in central China. A corpus of bamboo-strip texts that recorded the philosophical teachings of an era was buried with him. The tomb was sealed, and China quickly became the theater of the Qin conquest, an event that proved to be one of the most significant in ancient history. For over two millennia, the texts were forgotten. But in October...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195371453
• ISBN13: 9780195371451
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"