The Canon of Supreme Mystery by Yang Hsiung: A Translation with Commentary of the t'Ai Hsuan Ching by Michael Nylan

by Xiong Yang and Michael Nylan

This is a translation, with a commentary and a long contextualizing introduction, of the only major work of Han (206 B.C. to 220 A.D.) philosophy that is still available in complete form. It is the first translation of the work into a European language and provides unique access to this formative period in Chinese history. Because Yang Hsiung's interpretations drew upon a variety of pre-Han sources and then dominated Confucian learning until the twelfth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791413950
• ISBN13: 9780791413951
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 680 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.