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- Title: Guodian: The Newly Discovered Seeds of Chinese Religions and Political Philosophy (Book Review)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 194 KB
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Guodian: The Newly Discovered Seeds of Chinese Religions and Political Philosophy. By KENNETH W. HOLLOWAY. OXFORD: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2009, Pp. viii + 198. $55. The cache of Warring States manuscripts excavated in 1993 from a tomb of modest dimensions near the village of Guodian [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] in Hubei Province, China, is undoubtedly one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century. The 804 bamboo slips with a total of 13,000 characters of text have drawn a tremendous amount of scholarly attention ever since their first publication in 1998. It took less than a decade for thousands of articles and a great number of book-length studies on these manuscripts to be written and published. The overwhelming majority of these works are written in Chinese, but, with a slight delay, a great number of Western language articles have accumulated as well. However, except for the conference volume on the Guodian "Laozi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]" (The Guodian Laozi, ed. Sarah Allan and Crispin Williams, Berkeley, 2000) and a few unpublished dissertations, Kenneth Holloway's book is the first English-language monograph exclusively devoted to the Guodian manuscripts. Thus it is likely to be burdened with a heavy load of expectations, which the author would have done well to check by clearly defining the scope of the study, and on which the reader needs to reflect in order not to judge the book unfairly. In the introduction, the author promises nothing less than that