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050 00 $aDS721$b.P794 2001
082 00 $a951$221
100 1 $aPuett, Michael,$d1964-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002055043
245 14 $aThe ambivalence of creation :$bdebates concerning innovation and artifice in early China /$cMichael Puett.
246 30 $aDebates concerning innovation and artifice in early China
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$c2001.
300 $aviii, 299 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aRevision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1994.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 275-287) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tDomesticating the Landscape: Notions of Ancestors and Innovation in the Bronze Age -- $g2.$tThe Craft of Humanity: Debates over Nature and Culture in Warring States China -- $g3.$tSages, Ministers, and Rebels: Narratives of the Emergence of the State -- $g4.$tThe Creation of Empire: The Emergence and Consolidation of Imperial Rule in China -- $g5.$tThe Tragedy of Creation: Sima Qian's Reconstruction of the Rise of Empire in Early China -- $gApp.$tThe Semantics of Creation.
520 1 $a"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 fabrication, or was it based in part on natural patterns?
520 8 $aIs it possible for new sages to emerge who could create something better? This book studies these debates from the Warring States period to the early Han (second century B.C.), analyzing the texts in detail and tracing the historical consequences of the various positions that emerged. It also examines the time's conflicting narratives about the origin of the state and how these narratives and ideas were manipulated for ideological purposes during the formation of the first empires."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aChina$xCivilization.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023992
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam021/00049290.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam027/00049290.html
852 00 $beal$hDS721$i.P794 2001