Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction: Music and Cosmological Theory Part One: Music and the State 1. Music in State Order and Cosmic Rulership 2. A Civilizing Force for Imperial Rule 3. Regulating Sound and the Cosmos Part Two: Music and the Individual 4. Music and the Emergence of a Psychology of the Emotions 5. Sagely Attunement to the Cosmos 6. Music and Medicine Conclusion Bibliography
Erica Fox Brindley is Associate Professor of History, Asian Studies, and Religious Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Individualism in Early China: Human Agency and the Self in Thought and Politics.
"Music, Cosmology, and the Politics of Harmony in Early China is an informative and resourceful book, from which scholars who study early Chinese culture and politics have much to learn. Erica Fox Brindley has done a great job covering various topics (such as state order, cosmos, emotion, and medicine) in the context of music from the late Warring States period to the Han dynasty. The wide range of the book is a powerful indication of the fact that music is undoubtedly an important theme associated with a variety of topics in early China." - Dao "...[an] excellent monograph on a topic of great interest, a vibrant and richly detailed study that masterfully shows us a China in which the individual-not our autonomous, enlightenment individual, but an individual nonetheless-works with what is given and creatively forges a self, a social world, and a vision of the cosmos ... a remarkable contribution to the study of early China, China studies, and in this particular case, our understanding of music." - Philosophy East & West "Brindley's study of music in early China makes an important contribution to our understanding of this highly consequential art form ... By not limiting its analysis to a specific text or time, the book explores broad-ranging connections that might otherwise remain obscure if limited by now obsolete divisions such as Confucianism or Daoism." - Journal of Chinese Religions "Taking full advantage of the plethora of newly excavated manuscripts, this book is a welcome addition to the study of early Chinese intellectual and cultural history ... [the book] is an important study that breaks new ground in a regrettably understudied area of Chinese thought." - Journal of Asian Studies "This is an enormous contribution to the field in terms of addressing some early conceptions of music and its social, cultural, and political role in the developing political and cosmic system based on correlative thinking, or as the author puts it, a 'cosmology of mystical resonance.'" - Joanne D. Birdwhistell, author of Mencius and Masculinities: Dynamics of Power, Morality, and Maternal Thinking
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