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The Hermeneutics of Contentious Imagery: What Exactly the Zhuangzi Has to Say about the Straw Dogs in the Laozi

Religions, 2019
The image of “straw dogs” (chugou 刍狗) is a simile used in chapter five of the Laozi (老子), in a passage generally understood as an explicit Daoist rejection of kind acts (or benevolence as ren 仁 was translated for a long time), well known as ...
Callisto Searle
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Aesthetic ineffability [PDF]

, 2017
This essay provides an overview of the ways in which contemporary philosophers have tried to make sense of ineffability as encountered in aesthetic contexts.
Jonas, Silvia
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Reclusion And The Chinese Eremitic Tradition [PDF]

, 1993
Aat Vervoorn\u27s Men of the Cliffs and Caves is a groundbreaking study of attitudes held by the scholar-official class concerning the issue of service vis-à-vis reclusion, retirement, and withdrawal.
Berkowitz, Alan
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Interface as Inverted Divination: The Modes of Yijing, L. Tolstoy and J. Cage

Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований
An interface is like a crossroad in a person’s thinking, it’s cross-section at the point where a certain level of tension accumulates. Such crossroads are usually perfectly realized by the subject, and it is precisely this kind of situation that leads ...
Konstantin V. Azarov
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Translating Early Chinese Texts and the Problem of Contextualization: The Example of Chapter 1 of the Lǎozǐ

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2018
This article explores the issue of contextualization in translating early Chinese texts. It takes the example of Chapter 1 of the Lǎozǐ, which is analysed sentence by sentence with the focus on possible contexts in which the sentences can be read.
Dušan Vávra
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Confucius and the superorganism [PDF]

, 2018
In this paper, I describe a sense of oneness that, while having its roots in a tradition of thought far removed from our own, might nonetheless be of relevance to persons today.
Sarkissian, Hagop
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Temporal Self-Organization in Galaxy Formation

, 2014
We report on the discovery of a relation between the number of star formation (SF) peaks per unit time, $\nu_{\rm peak}$, and the size of the temporal smoothing window function, $\Delta t$, used to define the peaks: $\nu_{\rm peak}\propto\Delta t^{1-\phi}
Cen, Renyue
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Frequent Spin Reorientation of Galaxies due to Local Interactions

, 2014
We study the evolution of angular momenta of ($M_*=10^{10}-10^{12}\msun$) galaxies utilizing large-scale ultra-high resolution cosmological hydrodynamic simulations and find that spin of the stellar component changes direction frequently, caused by major
Cen, Renyue
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William Wainwright's Legacy from A Chinese Perspective

Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 87-89, March 2025.
Victoria S. Harrison
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From Text to Praxis: Yan Zun’s Intertextual Strategies in Laozi Zhigui and the Pragmatic Synthesis of Zhouyi, Zhuangzi, and Huang-Lao Thought

Religions
This paper, through a detailed textual analysis of Laozi zhigui 老子指歸, examines Yan Zun’s sophisticated intertextual strategies in elucidating the Daodejing 道德經 and explores the eclectic and inclusive conceptual framework he constructed.
Fufu Li
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