The Huainanzi and Textual Production in Early China Edited by Sarah A. Queen & Michael Puett

Introduction / Sarah A. Queen and Michael Puett -- Part One. Authorship and textual formation -- Root-branches structuralism in the Huainanzi / Andrew Meyer -- Daoist inner cultivation thought and the textual structure of the Huainanzi / Harold D. Roth -- Representations of Confucius in the Huainanzi / Sarah A. Queen -- Creating a book and performing it : the "Yao Lue" chapter of the Huainanzi as a Western Han Fu / Martin Kern -- Part Two. Knowledge and rhetoric -- Tool metaphors in the Huainanzi and other early texts / John S. Major -- The Huainanzi's "Heavenly Patterns" and the Shiji's "Treatise on the celestial offices" : what's the difference? / David W. Pankenier -- A note on logical connectives in the Huainanzi / Michael Nylan -- Part Three. Audience and reception -- Sages, creation, and the end of history in the Huainanzi / Michael Puett -- The Liu clan's "Flesh and Bone" : the foundation of Liu An's vision of empire / Judson B. Murray -- The discourse about lords (zhuhou) in the Huainanzi / Griet Vankeerberghen -- Breaking through Heaven's glass ceiling : the significance of the commoner woman of Qi in the "Lan Ming" chapter of the Huananzi / Anne Behnke Kinney.