Foreword: Appreciation of Professor Sarah Allan's Scholarly Contributions
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. A Fluid Cosmos: Cosmologies of Creative Flow in Early China
Erica Brindley
2. Water as Homology in the Construction of Classical Chinese Medicine
Vivienne Lo and Gu Man
3. Destruction of Temples and Arresting Spirits: Metaphors of War, Illness, and Health in Daoist Conversion Narratives
Gil Raz
4. Patterns in Stone: The Third Metaphor of Chinese Philosophy
Edmund Ryden
5. Humans Can Broaden the Way, Sages Can Continue and Carry Out the Workings of Tian: ¿¿¿¿, ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿
Roger T. Ames
6. Exorcism and the Spirit Turtle
Constance A. Cook
7. Transcription Notes on the "Mind as Ruler" Section in the Tsinghua Bamboo Manuscript The Heart Is Called the Center (Xin shi wei zhong ¿¿¿¿)
Chen Wei
8. Texts, Historicity, and Metaphors in Early China: Reading Tang Resides Near the Mound of Tang (Tang chuyu Tangqiu ¿¿¿¿¿) in the Tsinghua Collection of Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts
Shirley Chan
9. Some Remarks on the Value and Inner Meaning of the Way of Archery
Cheung Kwong-yue
10. The Meaning of the Graph and Word ge ¿ in the Huayuanzhuang East Oracle Bone Corpus and Related Questions
Han Yujiao
11. Notes on a Cornerstone of Early Chinese Argumentative Rhetoric: The Function Word gù ¿
Rudolf G. Wagner
List of Contributors
Index

Constance A. Cook is Professor of Chinese at Lehigh University, Christopher J. Foster is an independent scholar, and Susan Blader is Associate Professor Emerita of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dartmouth College. Together they are also the coeditors of Myth and the Making of History: Narrating Early China with Sarah Allan and Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan, both published by SUNY Press.