Chinese Philosophy in Excavated Early Texts

The nine papers of this Supplement on these significant issues and important ideas are closely accentuated and critically discussed by well-established specialists, philosophers and historians, from various relevant disciplines of study.

Introduction: Chinese Philosophy in Excavated Early Texts (CHUNG-YING CHENG). The Tsinghua: Bamboo Strips and Ancient Chinese Civilization (LI XUEQIN AND LIU GUOZHONG). Recontextualizing Xing: Self-Cultivation and Human Nature in the Guodian Texts (FRANKLIN PERKINS) The Guodian Bamboo Slips and Confucian Theories of Human Nature (CHEN LAI). Theodicies of Discontinuity: Domesticating Energies and Dispositions in Early China (MICHAEL PUETT) Abdication and Utopian Vision in the Bamboo Slip Manuscript, Rongchengshi (SARAH ALLAN). Returning to "Zisi": The Confucian Theory of the Lineage of the Way (LIANG TAO). "San De" and Warring States Views on Heavenly Retribution (SCOTT COOK). Divination and Autonomy: New Perspectives from Excavated Texts (LISA RAPHALS). On Internal Onto-Genesis of Virtuous Actions in the Wu Xing Pian (CHUNG-YING CHENG).