Introduction: Having a Word with Angus Graham: At the First Twenty-Five Years into His Immortality
Carine Defoort and Roger T. Ames
1. Reading the Zhuangzi Anthology
Esther S. Klein
2. Reflections on Textual Analysis in the Post-Graham Era
Liu Xiaogan
3. Cognitive Attunement in the Zhuangzi
Harold D. Roth
4. Vital Matters, A.C. Graham, and the Zhuangzi
Michael Nylan
5. Remarks on Intertranslatability and Relativism
Henry Rosemont, Jr.
6. Getting to the Bottom of "Things" (wù ¿): Expanding on A.C. Graham's Understanding
Robert H. Gassmann
7. Míng (¿) as "Names" Rather than "Words:" Disabled Bodies Speaking without Acting in Early Chinese Texts
Jane Geaney
8. Unfounded and Unfollowed: Mencius' Portrayal of Yang Zhu and Mo Di
Carine Defoort
9. Reconstructing A.C. Graham's Reading of Mencius on xing ¿: A Coda to "The Background of the Mencian Theory of Human Nature" (1967)
Roger T. Ames
10. Reason and Spontaneity Reconsidered
Lisa Raphals
11. Spontaneity and Marriage
Paul Kjellberg
12. Rationalism and Anti-Rationalism in Later Mohism and Zhuangzi
Chris Fraser
About the Contributors
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Carine Defoort is Professor of Sinology at the University of Leuven in Belgium. She is the author of The Pheasant Cap Master (He guan zi): A Rhetorical Reading, also published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor (with Nicolas Standaert) of The Mozi as an Evolving Text: Different Voices in Early Chinese Thought. Roger T. Ames is Humanities Chair Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i. His many books include Confucian Cultures of Authority (coedited with Peter D. Hershock) and Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical Reflections (coedited with Hsingyuan Tsao), both also published by SUNY Press.