... fa,” book 6 of Quintilian's Institutio oratoria , Zuo Si's preface to his “Sandu fu ,” Xunzi's analysis of Zhou tombs and funerary rituals in his “Li lun” essay, the “Shield of Achilles” episode in the Iliad , and the metaphorical section of Sima Xiangru's “Shanglin fu ”—all employ a similar set...

.... Nowadays, these four feelings strike us as postsocial and moralistic in nature, each being born of one's social existence. This logical fallacy was probably not lost on Mencius's contemporaries, either. For instance, Xunzi 荀子 (ca. 310–ca. 235 BCE) would soon challenge Mencius's stance by reidentifying...

... BCE) himself, followed by Xunzi 荀子 (ca. 313–238 B c E), Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒 (179–104? B c E), Ouyang Jian 歐陽建 (?–300), and others. The second camp consists of thinkers who hold the opposite view, that “ Yan does not fully express yi ” 言不盡意. Among its luminaries are Laozi 老子 (ca. 600–501 BCE...

... representation of artistic objects representing real-life scenes and events. In reading Xunzi's 荀子 (c. 310–c. 235) depiction of funerary objects in his “Lilun” 禮論 (Discourse on Rituals) and Homer's (fl. ca. 8th cent. BCE) account of the shield of Achilles, Ekström probes the blurring of boundaries between...

..., with Commentaries). Beijing: Renmin wenxue chubanshe, 1958.] XZJJ Wang Xianqian annot. Xunzi jijie (Works of Xunzi, with Collected Commentaries). 2 vols. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1988. ZGLDWLX Guo Shaoyu and Wensheng Wang Zhongguo lidai wenlun xuan (An Anthology of Chi­nese Literary Criticism through the Ages). 4...

...., Silent Operas , 106. 31 Li Y., Wusheng xi , 111–12 ; Li Y., Silent Operas , 105–6. 30 Li Y., Wusheng xi , 123 ; Li Y., Silent Operas , 122; translation modified. 29 An early occurrence of this line comes from Liu, “Da Lu Chen,” 25.1168–69 , quoted in Ho, Chu, and Fan, Xunzi...

..., Lam gives a synoptic overview of such moral debates from Xunzi 荀子 (313–238 BCE), Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130–1200), Wang Yangming 王陽明 (1472–1528), and beyond (Liu Zongzhou 劉宗周 [1578–1645] and Lin Zhao'en 林兆恩 [1517–1598]). He seizes on countercurrents within Ming Neo-Confucianism that broke with the earlier...

... xuanzhu 玄珠 (Dark Pearl), 25 “Xuejin Taoyuan” 學津討原 (Searching for the Origin of Studying the Ford), 69 xujing 虛靜 (emptiness and stillness), 51 Xunzi 荀子 (ca. 313–238 B c E), 14, 16–20 yan 言 (language, text, phrases, words), 2, 4, 13, 96, 107 yan bu jin yi 言不盡意 ( yan does...

.... Liu's description of “emptiness and stillness” also echoes Laozi's and Xunzi's discussions of that thoughtless state; see Zhang S., Zhongguo gudai wenxue chuangzuo lun , 5–47. 9. ZZJS , 1:7.294; Watson, Complete Works of Chuang Tzu , 94, with slight modifications. 8. ZZJS , 1:4.160...

... consciousness, as represented by the Han epistemology of the fusion between heaven and the human, Confucian ruminations on humanity (Mencius's belief in human perfectibility versus Xunzi's 荀子 [ca. 313−238 BCE] notion of human susceptibility to evil), and the Mahayama Buddhist doctrine of fuxing 復性 (restoring...