Papers by Mark A. Csikszentmihalyi
The Journal of Asian Studies, Oct 29, 2007
China Review International, 2001
Early China, Sep 1, 2022
This article introduces the biographical texts accompanying illustrations of Kongzi and several d... more This article introduces the biographical texts accompanying illustrations of Kongzi and several disciples on the wooden frame and cover of a mirror stand excavated in 2015 from the Haihunhou tomb near Nanchang. These texts are analyzed with reference to evolving portrayals of these figures in the Western Han, paying particular attention to parallels with two generically similar chapters in theShi ji(Records of the Archivist). Of particular interest is the way the excavated disciple biographies share biographical elements with transmitted counterparts, but select different dialogues for each disciple, most of which are also found in theLun yu(Analects). This suggests that the artists who created the mirror stand relied on a different source text from the compilers of theShi jichapter, perhaps on a pairing of visual and biographical information about the disciples calledKongzi dizi(Kongzi's disciples). The biographies also evince a heightened emphasis on the disciples and Kongzi's judgments about them, consistent with the Han view that the proper selection of ministers was a key aspect of the master's “Kingly Way.”
Blackwell Publishing Ltd eBooks, Nov 20, 2007
BRILL eBooks, 2009
This chapter argues that the vocabulary of ritual performance provides a resource for a test of s... more This chapter argues that the vocabulary of ritual performance provides a resource for a test of sincerity of intentions, and that this vocabulary as a result be seen as an integral part of not only early Chinese moral psychology, but also cultivation practice-here defined as practice that alters the actor's dispositions. It treats three texts that focus on qualities of action, showing how cultivation of behaviors and skills was marked by attention to mental or spiritual state of the actor at the moment of action. The domain of this study is the set of pre-imperial texts that focus on three types of self-cultivation: those in ethical discourse that trained readers to develop virtues; those in physical cultivation discourse that trained readers to strengthen their qi and lengthen their lives; and those in spiritual cultivation discourse that trained readers to communicate with tian and spirits in order to receive their blessings. Keywords: behaviors; Chinese; ethical; moral psychology; ritual performance; self-cultivation Practice; spiritual state
The Journal of Asian Studies, 2007
A Companion to World Literature, Dec 19, 2019
This book reconstructs a neglected episode in the development of Confucianism, one that considera... more This book reconstructs a neglected episode in the development of Confucianism, one that considerably influenced later Chinese religious thought. Material Virtue examines a set of four through first century B.C.E. Chinese texts that argue virtue has a physical correlate in the body. Based on both transmitted (e.g., the Mengzi or Mencius) and recently excavated (e.g., the Wuxing or Five Kinds of Action) texts, Material Virtue describes how the argument addresses challenges to early Chinese religious ethics in part by relying on emerging notions such as the balance of qi (pneumas) also found in natural philosophy.
University of Hawaii Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2017
Hackett Pub. eBooks, 2006
Page 1. Readings in Han Chinese Thought Edited and Translated by MARK CsiKSZENTMlHALYl Page 2. Re... more Page 1. Readings in Han Chinese Thought Edited and Translated by MARK CsiKSZENTMlHALYl Page 2. Readings in Han Chinese thought Page 3. Page 4. Readings in Han Chinese thought Edited and Translated by Mark Csikszentmihalyi Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. ...
The 'human' in comparative religious ethics, 2016
Astronomische Nachrichten, 2015
Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics
Early China, 1996
Divination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China is a collection of thirteen articles by Michael L... more Divination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China is a collection of thirteen articles by Michael Loewe of Cambridge University, the foremost historian of Han dynasty China. All of the articles have been previously published over the period 1978 to 1992, and are arranged here by their year of publication. In a few instances, modest emendations have been inserted in brackets. The articles are preceded by a valuable thirty-eight page introduction on the "history of the early empires" and are followed by a glossary, bibliography, and index. As such, Divination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China is in the genre of collectanea of notable authors; one might look to the Han scholar Lu Jia's WW Xinyu |ff|g (New discourses), upon which Loewe's volume draws for some of its subject matter, for a more ancient precedent. As it happens, Lu Jia's work might also have been subtitled Divination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China just as this work could be accurately entitled Michael Loewe's New Discourses. Since works of this genre afford the reader not only a perspective on a variety of subtopics, but also an opportunity to reflect on the methods and approach of the author, this review will describe (and where applicable, update) the thirteen articles while attempting to situate the articles in the broader context of Loewe's contribution to and perspective on Han dynasty studies.
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