{"product_id":"the-way-of-water-and-sprouts-of-virtue-paperback","title":"The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Allan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplicates early Chinese thought and explores the relationship between language and thought.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book maintains that early Chinese philosophers, whatever their philosophical school, assumed common principles informed the natural and human worlds and that one could understand the nature of man by studying the principles which govern nature. Accordingly, the natural world rather than a religious tradition provided the root metaphors of early Chinese thought. Sarah Allan examines the concrete imagery, most importantly water and plant life, which served as a model for the most fundamental concepts in Chinese philosophy including such ideas as dao, the \"way,\" de, \"virtue\" or \"potency,\" xin, the \"mind\/heart,\" xing, \"nature,\" and qi, \"vital energy.\" Water, with its extraordinarily rich capacity for generating imagery, provided the primary model for conceptualizing general cosmic principles while plants provided a model for the continuous sequence of generation, growth, reproduction, and death and were the basis for the Chinese understanding of the nature of man in both religion and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Allan \u003c\/b\u003eis Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Chinese Studies in honor of Richard M. Bressler at Dartmouth College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art, and Cosmos in Early China\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by SUNY Press; \u003ci\u003eThe Heir and the Sage: Dynastic Legend in Early China; Chinese Bronzes: A Selection from European Collections\u003c\/i\u003e (with Li Xueqin); and \u003ci\u003eOracle Bone Collections in Great Britain\u003c\/i\u003e (with Li Xueqin and Qi Wenxin); and editor of \u003ci\u003eLegend, Lore and Religion in China\u003c\/i\u003e (with Alvin P. Cohen) and \u003ci\u003eDunhuang Manuscripts in British Collections\u003c\/i\u003e (with others).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 196\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 8.98 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 12, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53054146380000,"sku":"9780791433867","price":68.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/XiAzehgoy_9780791433867.webp?v=1781293281","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-way-of-water-and-sprouts-of-virtue-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}