Filial piety in Chinese thought and history [electronic resource] / edited by Alan K.L. Chan and Sor-hoon Tan.
Publication details: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.Description: ix, 245 pISBN:- 9780203413883
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"Began at a workshop on "Conceptions of Filial Piety in Chinese Thought and History" organized by the Department of Philosophy and the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS), in 2002"--Acknowledgments.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The evolution of the concept of filial piety (xiao) in the Laozi, the Zhuangzi, and the Guodian bamboo text Yucong / Ikeda Tomohisa -- 2. Filial piety with a vengeance : the tension between rites and law in the Han / Anne Cheng -- 3. Reverent caring : the parent-son relationship in early medieval tales of filial offspring / Keith N. Knapp -- 4. Filial devotion for women : a Buddhist testimony from third-century China / Yuet Keung Lo -- 5. Immortal parents and universal kin : family values in medieval Daoism / Livia Kohn -- 6. Filial piety and "authentic parents" in religious Daoism / Mugitani Kunio -- 7. Imperial filial piety as a political problem / Patricia Ebrey -- 8. Emperor Chengzu and imperial filial piety of the Ming dynasty : from the classic of filial piety to the biographical accounts of filial piety / Lee Cheuk Yin -- 9. Does xiao come before ren? / Alan K.L. Chan -- 10. Filial piety, commiseration, and the virtue of ren / Sin Yee Chan -- 11. Filial piety as a virtue / Philip J. Ivanhoe -- 12. Filial piety as respect for tradition / A.T. Nuyen -- 13. Reflections on filiality, nature, and nurture / Lisa Raphals -- 14. Filial daughters-in-law : questioning Confucian filiality / Sor-Hoon Tan.
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