Exemplary figures = Fayan / Yang Xiong ; translated by Michael Nylan.

By:

Yang, Xiong, 53 B.C.-18 A.D

Contributor(s):

Nylan, Michael

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English, Chinese Original language: Chinese Series: Classics of Chinese thoughtPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (xli, 315 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780295804682
0295804688

Other title:

Fayan

Uniform titles:

Fa yan. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Exemplary figures =DDC classification:

181/.11 23

LOC classification:

B128.Y313

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Contents:

Acknowledgments ; Chronology of Dynasties ; Introduction -- Learning and Practicing -- Our Masters -- Cultivating One's Person -- Asking about the Way -- Asking about Divine Insight -- Asking about Illumination -- Things Rarely Seen -- Every Five Hundred Years -- Foresight -- Chong and Li -- Yan Hui and Min Ziqian -- The Noble Man -- Honoring the Ancestors, the Ultimate Duty.

Summary: Exemplary Figures (sometimes translated as Model Sayings) is an unabridged, annotated translation of Fayan, one of three major works by the Chinese court poet-philosopher Yang Xiong (53 BCE-18 CE). Yang sought to "renew the old" by patterning these works on earlier classics, drawing inspiration from the Confucian Analects for Exemplary Figures. In this philosophical masterwork, constructed as a dialogue, Yang poses and then answers questions on philosophical, political, ethical, and literary matters. The translator's rendering of this text, which is laden with word play and is extraordinarily difficult to translate, is a joy to read - at turns wise, cautionary, and playful.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-309) and index.

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Exemplary Figures (sometimes translated as Model Sayings) is an unabridged, annotated translation of Fayan, one of three major works by the Chinese court poet-philosopher Yang Xiong (53 BCE-18 CE). Yang sought to "renew the old" by patterning these works on earlier classics, drawing inspiration from the Confucian Analects for Exemplary Figures. In this philosophical masterwork, constructed as a dialogue, Yang poses and then answers questions on philosophical, political, ethical, and literary matters. The translator's rendering of this text, which is laden with word play and is extraordinarily difficult to translate, is a joy to read - at turns wise, cautionary, and playful.

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