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Between Marshes and Taverns: The Forging of the Marginal Hero in Water Margin

Between Marshes and Taverns: The Forging of the Marginal Hero in Water Margin

In an isolated inn alongside a dusty road, a burly traveler orders "two 斤 jīn of beef and a …

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Philosophy
Corpses Along the Road and the Heavenly Mandate: Famine as Political Judgment in Ancient China

Corpses Along the Road and the Heavenly Mandate: Famine as Political Judgment in Ancient China

We are all familiar with the People's Republic of China's monumental struggle to eradicate …

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Philosophy
The Dialectics of Modernization: 汪晖 Wāng Huī and the Critique of Teleological Modernity

The Dialectics of Modernization: 汪晖 Wāng Huī and the Critique of Teleological Modernity

Does modernization constitute a universal, uniform itinerary that every society is destined to rep…

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Philosophy
Filial Piety in a Sack of Rice

Filial Piety in a Sack of Rice

In the Chinese ethical tradition, values are not transmitted solely through abstract prescriptions,…

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History
The Faith of the Caravans: Christianity under the Cosmopolitanism of the 唐 Táng

The Faith of the Caravans: Christianity under the Cosmopolitanism of the 唐 Táng

When the Jesuit mission led by Matteo Ricci began developing its strategy of cultural accommodation…

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