Dao Companion to the Excavated Guodian Bamboo Manuscripts

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Excavated Guodian Bamboo Manuscripts (Shirley Chan).- Part 1. A Philological Reading of the Guodian Manuscripts: The Texts and Textual Formation.- Chapter 2. The Guodian Laozi Materials (Franklin Perkins).- Chapter 3. On Citation Practices in the Guodian Manuscripts (HE Ruyue and Michael Nylan).- Chapter 4. Shu (Documents) Repertoire in Argument-Based Texts from Guodian: The Case of Cheng zhi (Things Brought to Completion) (Dirk Meyer).- Chapter 5. How to Achieve Good Governance-Arguments in the Tang Yu zhi dao (The Ways of Yao and Shun) and the Zhong xin zhi dao (The Ways of Uprightness and Reliability) (Michael Schimmelpfennig).- Chapter 6. Which Comes First? Dao or De : Evidence from Guodian Manuscripts (Constance A. Cook).- Chapter 7. Reading heng cheng in the Guodian Bamboo Text Lu Mu Gong wen Zisi (Duke Mu of Lu Asked Zisi) (LIAO Mingchun).- Part 2. Philosophical Concepts and Arguments in the Guodian Manuscripts.- Chapter 8. The Taiyi shengshui Cosmogony and Its Role in Early Chinese Thought (Erica Brindley).- Chapter 9. Daoist Philosophy as Viewed from the Guodian Manuscripts (Barbara Hendrischke).- Chapter 10. "Sagacity" and the Heaven-Human Relationship in the Wuxing (Erica Brindley).- Chapter 11. The Qiong da yi shi (Poverty or Success Is a Matter of Timing) and the Concept of Heaven and Humans in Early Confucianism (LIANG Tao).- Chapter 12. Xing and Qing : Human Nature and Moral Cultivation in the Guodian Text Xing zi ming chu (Nature Derives from Endowment) (Shirley Chan).- Chapter 13. Body and Mind in the Guodian Manuscripts (Lisa Raphals).- Chapter 14. Daoist Nature or Confucian Nurture: Moral Development in the Yucong (Thicket of Sayings) (Shirley Chan).- Chapter 15. The Debate over Coercive Rulership and the "Human Way" in Light of Recently Excavated Warring States Texts (Updated) (Scott Cook).- Chapter 16. The Guodian Confucian Texts and the Xunzi (TANG Siufu).- Chapter 17. From the Liu wei (Six Positions) Discussed in the Liu de (Six Virtues) to the San gang (Three Principles of Social Order) (LI Rui).- Chapter 18. Guodian: A New Window for Understanding the Introduction of Buddhism into China (Kenneth W. Holloway).