Michael Nylan is Caroline H. Robbins Chair of History at Bryn Mawr College.
“A precise and scholarly account of five texts that are of
fundamental importance to China’s intellectual development, this
book cuts through age-old misapprehensions with a brilliant
clarification of their context, content and significance.”—Michael
Loewe
“Interpreted and re-interpreted over the centuries the texts of
traditional China’s ‘Bible’ have exercised a profound effect on the
intellectual background of men of letters and have been exploited
in the interests of dynastic and political motives. In her
inestimable guide through the murky waters of the misapprehensions
and confusions of 2,000 years, Professor Nylan calls on scholarly
opinion past and present to give precisely argued accounts of the
context and content of these five fundamentally important texts.
The book is essential reading for all those who are concerned with
China’s intellectual and literary growth.”—Michael Loewe
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