The way spiritual discernment applies to decision making and management can be
approached by detailing the values and/or duties that a decision will rely upon, or …

The progressive dominance of historical-critical methods in the reading of ancient Chinese
classics has led scholars to privilege micro levels of textual analysis. Consequently, the …

The last sentence of Chapter 10 of the Analects describes a brief encounter between
Confucius and a hen-pheasant, and it does so in puzzling terms, ridden with lexical …

Many early Chinese writings feature a scene of speech. In more literary writings as in more
technical ones, writing often puts in the mouth of a speaker what the text tries to get across …

This unique book brings a fresh interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of ancient
Chinese history, creating a historical model for the emergence of cultural mainstays by …

This article provides evidence for the so far neglected existence of two clitic pronouns, yǐ 以
and yǔ 與, in Archaic Chinese (10th c.–3rd c. BC) in immediately verb-adjacent …

English The article" Without a Safety Net" presents the new translation and explanation of
the" Conversations" of Confucius by Hans van Ess. Van Ess claims that the Lunyu is a text …

The assessment of the date of composition of ancient Chinese texts or, more frequently and
more precisely, of their authenticity has been a turbulent issue since pre-modern times. It …