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The Four Books

The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition

By: Daniel K. Gardner

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The Four Books

The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition

By: Daniel K. Gardner

In this engaging volume, Daniel Gardner explains the way in which the Four Books--Great Learning, Analects, Mencius, and Maintaining Perfect Balance--have been read and understood by the Chinese since the twelfth century. Selected passages in translation are accompanied by Gardner's comments, which incorporate selections from the commentary and interpretation of the renowned Neo-Confucian thinker, Zhu Xi (1130-1200). This study provides an ideal introduction to the basic texts in the Confucian tradition from the twelfth through the twentieth centuries. It guides the reader through Zhu Xi's influential interpretation of the Four Books, showing how Zhu, through the genre of commentary, gave new coherence and meaning to these foundational texts. Since the Four Books with Zhu Xi's commentary served as the basic textbook for Chinese schooling and the civil service examinations for more than seven hundred years, this book illustrates as well the nature of the standard Chinese educational curriculum.

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Hackett Publishing

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1624660088

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9781624660085

Environmental Pollution in China

What Everyone Needs to Know

By: Daniel K. Gardner

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Environmental Pollution in China

What Everyone Needs to Know

By: Daniel K. Gardner

When Deng Xiaoping introduced market reforms in the late 1970s, few would have imagined what the next four decades would bring. China's GDP has grown on average nearly 10 percent annually since, and its economy is now the second largest in the world. Forty years ago, the Flying Pigeon bicycle ruled the roads; today, China is the world's largest car market. And if forty years ago you looked out across the Huangpu River from the Bund in Shanghai, you would have seen farmland and a few warehouses and wharves; now you see the stunning, futuristic cityscape of Pudong. The material progress of the past forty years has been staggering -- a source of pride for the Chinese people, as well as a source of legitimacy for the ruling Chinese Communist Party. But that progress has come at great cost: the extreme pollution of China's air, water, and soil has taken a stark toll on human health. In Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), Daniel K. Gardner examines the range of factors -- economic, social, political, and historical -- contributing to the degradation of China's environment. He also covers the public response to the widespread pollution; the measures the government is taking to clean up the environment; and the country's efforts to lessen its dependence on fossil fuels and develop clean sources of energy. Concise, accessible, and authoritative, this book serves as an ideal primer on one of the world's most challenging environmental crises.

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Oxford University Press

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0190696117

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Chu Hsi and the “Ta Hsueh”: Neo-Confucian Reflection on the Confucian Canon

By: Daniel K. Gardner

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Chu Hsi and the “Ta Hsueh”: Neo-Confucian Reflection on the Confucian Canon

By: Daniel K. Gardner

In 1190, Chu Hsi published an edition of the Four Books, which he ragarded as the basic curriculum for Confucian eduction. Of the four, he recommended that the Ta-hsueh be read first, calling it the "outline for learning." This is a study of the Ta-hsueh text, its history prior to the Sung dynasty, its new prominence in the Sung, and the reasons why Chu Hsi found the text so intellectualy and philosophically compelling. Includes an original annotated translation of the text.

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BRILL

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1684172543

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Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects

Canon, Commentary, and the Classical Tradition

By: Daniel K. Gardner

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Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects

Canon, Commentary, and the Classical Tradition

By: Daniel K. Gardner

This text explains the significance of Zhu Xi's interpretation of the Confucian tradition and of the genre of commentary in Eastern philosophy.

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Columbia University Press

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0231128649

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9780231128643

Manhattan Phoenix

The Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York

By: Daniel S. Levy

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Manhattan Phoenix

The Great Fire of 1835 and the Emergence of Modern New York

By: Daniel S. Levy

Shows vividly how the Great Fire of 1835, which nearly leveled Manhattan also created the ashes from which the city was reborn.In 1835, a merchant named Gabriel Disosway marveled at a great fire enveloping New York, commenting on how it "spread more and more vividly from the fiery arena, rendering every object, far and wide, minutely discernible - the lower bay and its Islands, with the shores of Long Island and NewJersey." The fire Disosway witnessed devastated a large swath of lower Manhattan, clearing roughly the same number of acres as the World Trade Center bombing, Manhattan Phoenix explores the emergence of modern New York after it emerged from the devastating fire of 1835 - a catastrophe that revealedhow truly unprepared and haphazardly organized it was - to become a world-class city merely a quarter of a century later. The one led to other. New York effectively had to start over.Daniel Levy's book charts Manhattan's almost miraculous growth while interweaving the lives of various New Yorkers who took part in the city's transformation. Some are well known, such as the land baron John Jacob Astor and Mayor Fernando Wood. Others less so, as with the African-American oystermanThomas Downing and the Bowery Theatre impresario Thomas Hamblin. The book celebrates Fire Chief James Gulick who battled the blaze, and celebrates the work of the architect Alexander Jackson Davis who built marble palaces for the rich. It chronicles the career of the merchant Alexander Stewart whoconstructed the first department store, follows the struggles of the abolitionist Arthur Tappan, and records of the efforts of the engineer John Bloomfield Jervis who brought clean water into homes. And this resurgence owed so much to the visionaries, such as Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux,who designed Central Park, creating a refuge that it remains to this day.Manhattan Phoenix reveals a city first in flames and then in flux but resolute in its determination to emerge as one of the world's greatest metropolises.

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Oxford University Press

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0195382374

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Confucianism

A Very Short Introduction

By: Daniel K. Gardner

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Confucianism

A Very Short Introduction

By: Daniel K. Gardner

This volume shows the influence of the Sage's teachings over the course of Chinese history--on state ideology, the civil service examination system, imperial government, the family, and social relations--and the fate of Confucianism in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as China developed alongside a modernizing West and Japan. Some Chinese intellectuals attempted to reform the Confucian tradition to address new needs; others argued for jettisoning it altogether in favor of Western ideas and technology; still others condemned it angrily, arguing that Confucius and his legacy were responsible for China's feudal, ''backward'' conditions in the twentieth century and launching campaigns to eradicate its influences. Yet Chinese continue to turn to the teachings of Confucianism for guidance in their daily lives.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195398912

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Restoration priorities and strategies

Restoration to protect biodiversity and enhance green infrastructure: Nordic examples of priorities and needs for strategic solutions

By: Hagen, Dagmar,Kotiaho, Janne,Kareksela, Santtu,Lindhagen, Anna,Isaksson, Daniel,Päivinen, Jussi,Svavarsdóttir, Kristín,Tennokene, Margit,Hansen, Kjell Tore

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Restoration priorities and strategies

Restoration to protect biodiversity and enhance green infrastructure: Nordic examples of priorities and needs for strategic solutions

By: Hagen, Dagmar,Kotiaho, Janne,Kareksela, Santtu,Lindhagen, Anna,Isaksson, Daniel,Päivinen, Jussi,Svavarsdóttir, Kristín,Tennokene, Margit,Hansen, Kjell Tore

Restoration is a tool to achieve several of the strategic targets of The Convention on Biological Diversity from 2010. Currently, there is no standard for how to set priorities for restoration. The aim of this project was to exchange knowledge between the Nordic countries and Estonia regarding experiences of restoration and priority setting with a landscape perspective. Using case examples, the project explores and discusses approaches for setting priorities, and suggests possible ways of improved approaches for prioritization. This includes how to improve Green Infrastructure and measures for protection of species and habitats in fragmented landscapes. The case examples use different approaches, and provide ideas, reflections and take-home messages to enhance future prioritization. This report show that there is a need for greater emphasis on the prioritization aspects of restoration.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289346485

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9789289346481

Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587

By: Daniel K. Gardner,Mark C. Carnes

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Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587

By: Daniel K. Gardner,Mark C. Carnes

Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587 is set in the Hanlin Academy in Ming dynasty China. Most students are members of the Grand Secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, the body of top-ranking graduates of the civil service examination who serve as advisers to the Wanli emperor. Some Grand Secretaries are Confucian "purists," who hold that tradition obliges the emperor to name his first-born son as successor; others, in support of the most senior of the Grand Secretaries, maintain that it is within the emperor's right to choose his successor; and still others, as they decide this matter among many issues confronting the empire, continue to scrutinize the teachings of Confucianism for guidance. The game unfolds amid the secrecy and intrigue within the walls of the Forbidden City as scholars struggle to apply Confucian precepts to a dynasty in peril.

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UNC Press Books

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1469672308

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Confucianism

A Very Short Introduction

By: Daniel K. Gardner

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Confucianism

A Very Short Introduction

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The Intellectual Sword

Harvard Law School, the Second Century

By: Bruce A. Kimball,Daniel R. Coquillette

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The Intellectual Sword

Harvard Law School, the Second Century

By: Bruce A. Kimball,Daniel R. Coquillette

A history of Harvard Law School in the twentieth century, focusing on the school’s precipitous decline prior to 1945 and its dramatic postwar resurgence amid national crises and internal discord. By the late nineteenth century, Harvard Law School had transformed legal education and become the preeminent professional school in the nation. But in the early 1900s, HLS came to the brink of financial failure and lagged its peers in scholarly innovation. It also honed an aggressive intellectual culture famously described by Learned Hand: “In the universe of truth, they lived by the sword. They asked no quarter of absolutes, and they gave none.” After World War II, however, HLS roared back. In this magisterial study, Bruce Kimball and Daniel Coquillette chronicle the school’s near collapse and dramatic resurgence across the twentieth century. The school’s struggles resulted in part from a debilitating cycle of tuition dependence, which deepened through the 1940s, as well as the suicides of two deans and the dalliance of another with the Nazi regime. HLS stubbornly resisted the admission of women, Jews, and African Americans, and fell behind the trend toward legal realism. But in the postwar years, under Dean Erwin Griswold, the school’s resurgence began, and Harvard Law would produce such major political and legal figures as Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan, and President Barack Obama. Even so, the school faced severe crises arising from the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, Critical Legal Studies, and its failure to enroll and retain people of color and women, including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Based on hitherto unavailable sources—including oral histories, personal letters, diaries, and financial records—The Intellectual Sword paints a compelling portrait of the law school widely considered the most influential in the world.

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0674737326

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Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587

By: Daniel K. Gardner,Mark C. Carnes

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Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587

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Book's by Daniel K. Gardner

The Four Books

The Four Books

Environmental Pollution in China

Environmental Pollution in China

Chu Hsi and the “Ta Hsueh”: Neo-Confucian Reflection on the Confucian Canon

Chu Hsi and the “Ta Hsueh”: Neo-Confucian Reflection on the Confucian Canon

Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects

Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects

Manhattan Phoenix

Manhattan Phoenix

Confucianism

Confucianism

Restoration priorities and strategies

Restoration priorities and strategies

Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587

Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587

Confucianism

Confucianism

The Intellectual Sword

The Intellectual Sword

Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587

Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor, 1587

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