Moss Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3830338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moss Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moss |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
變!Metamorphosis in Journey to the West
In the 1592 Ming dynasty novel Journey to the West, the Tang dynasty Buddhist monk Xuanzang (玄奘 602-664) embarks on a dangerous journey to India to bring Buddhist sutras back to China. To protect the human monk, the bodhisattva Guanyin sends four attendants, each of whom has undergone metamorphosis. Various transformations enliven and fill the novel: humans change into animals, beasts into human-like forms, and humans and beasts become deities, e…
The Aleatory Genre
The philosophy suggested by Jan Zwicky's expanded understanding of lyric and use of the fragment-as-method inspired this notebook of misunderstanding. Seeking to read Zwicky in the tradition of the aleatory genre and its basic form, the fragment, Roberts finds that her own sense of poetics and ethics (feminist, poststructural, phenomenological) accords generally with Zwicky's lyric philosophy and epistemology of imagination. Roberts's resonance w…
Same Bed, Different Dreams
Our public discourse on China is a miasma of self-righteous rhetoric, and it has been since 1945. Overzealous China haters, “holier-than” human rights missionaries (“interest groups,” David M. Lampton aptly calls them), war-scare mongers, and purveyors of dubious documents thicken the air with their opprobrium. It is a peculiar nationalist obsession. The other nations of the world do not join us in making China a global scapegoat; neither can thi…
Dao de jing
The Dao De Jing is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature. It is widely influential in China, in Asia, and in the West. Composed between the late sixth and the late fourth centuries B.C., its enigmatic verses have inspired artists, philosophers, poets, religious thinkers, and general readers down to our own times. This new translation, both revelatory and authentic, captures much of the beauty and…
Bad karma in Asia
Beginning with its wrongful engagement in China's civil war in 1945 and ending in 1991 with the civil war in Cambodia, for which it bears considerable responsibility, the U.S. government waged war in Asia—sometimes unilaterally and unlawfully (without Congressional consent), sometimes in concert with the United Nations or other allies. This article charts the development of U.S. involvement in Asia by moving backward in time, from present effects…
Eulogy for John S. Service
Contra ideocracy
Like much Cold War jargon, “civil society” as an idealized description of the forums and other “spaces” of U.S. intellectual life amounts at best to half the truth. The universities, the various presses, and the newspapers function by and large in a zone partly under state and partly under civil control, the mix and the quality varying case by case. Most of the dominating Asian studies institutes and departments in the United States have been fun…
Three Kingdoms
Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on histories, dramas, and poems portraying the crisis to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that has become the Chinese national epic. This abridged edition captures the novel's intimate and unsparing v…
A Critique of Soviet Economics
Three Kingdoms
The Metaphysical Polemics of the Tao Te Ching
Moss Roberts, The Metaphysical Polemics of the Tao Te Ching: An Attempt to Integrate the Ethics and Metaphysics of Lao Tzu, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 95, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1975), pp. 36-42
Watergate international unlimited
ExtractPeter Dale Scott, Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley, has pieced together a masterpiece of crime detection which may be considered a counterpart to I.F. Stone's Hidden History of the Korean War. His book, The War Conspiracy, significantly deepens and sharpens the methodology of “power structure research” and becomes in the end a major scholarly contribution to the study of contemporary U.S.-Southeast Asian for…
The Structure and Direction of Contemporary China Studies
Since fall 1969, a subcommittee of the Columbia University CCAS has been researching the institutional structure of the Asian studies field, with special reference to the development of Chinese studies in the U.S. since 1959. Our first findings, under the title Report on an Investigation of the American Asian Studies Establishment, were presented at the 1970 CCAS National Convention. Research continued the following year and led to an invitation …
Li, Yi, and Jen in the Lun Yü
A Critique of Soviet Economics
The Metaphysical Polemics of the Tao Te Ching
Moss Roberts, The Metaphysical Polemics of the Tao Te Ching: An Attempt to Integrate the Ethics and Metaphysics of Lao Tzu, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 95, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1975), pp. 36-42
Li, Yi, and Jen in the Lun Yü
The Structure and Direction of Contemporary China Studies
Since fall 1969, a subcommittee of the Columbia University CCAS has been researching the institutional structure of the Asian studies field, with special reference to the development of Chinese studies in the U.S. since 1959. Our first findings, under the title Report on an Investigation of the American Asian Studies Establishment, were presented at the 1970 CCAS National Convention. Research continued the following year and led to an invitation …
Watergate international unlimited
ExtractPeter Dale Scott, Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley, has pieced together a masterpiece of crime detection which may be considered a counterpart to I.F. Stone's Hidden History of the Korean War. His book, The War Conspiracy, significantly deepens and sharpens the methodology of “power structure research” and becomes in the end a major scholarly contribution to the study of contemporary U.S.-Southeast Asian for…
The Metaphysical Polemics of the Tao Te Ching
Moss Roberts, The Metaphysical Polemics of the Tao Te Ching: An Attempt to Integrate the Ethics and Metaphysics of Lao Tzu, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 95, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1975), pp. 36-42
Three Kingdoms
A Critique of Soviet Economics
Three Kingdoms
Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on histories, dramas, and poems portraying the crisis to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that has become the Chinese national epic. This abridged edition captures the novel's intimate and unsparing v…
Contra ideocracy
Like much Cold War jargon, “civil society” as an idealized description of the forums and other “spaces” of U.S. intellectual life amounts at best to half the truth. The universities, the various presses, and the newspapers function by and large in a zone partly under state and partly under civil control, the mix and the quality varying case by case. Most of the dominating Asian studies institutes and departments in the United States have been fun…
Bad karma in Asia
Beginning with its wrongful engagement in China's civil war in 1945 and ending in 1991 with the civil war in Cambodia, for which it bears considerable responsibility, the U.S. government waged war in Asia—sometimes unilaterally and unlawfully (without Congressional consent), sometimes in concert with the United Nations or other allies. This article charts the development of U.S. involvement in Asia by moving backward in time, from present effects…
Eulogy for John S. Service
Dao de jing
The Dao De Jing is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature. It is widely influential in China, in Asia, and in the West. Composed between the late sixth and the late fourth centuries B.C., its enigmatic verses have inspired artists, philosophers, poets, religious thinkers, and general readers down to our own times. This new translation, both revelatory and authentic, captures much of the beauty and…
Same Bed, Different Dreams
Our public discourse on China is a miasma of self-righteous rhetoric, and it has been since 1945. Overzealous China haters, “holier-than” human rights missionaries (“interest groups,” David M. Lampton aptly calls them), war-scare mongers, and purveyors of dubious documents thicken the air with their opprobrium. It is a peculiar nationalist obsession. The other nations of the world do not join us in making China a global scapegoat; neither can thi…
The Aleatory Genre
The philosophy suggested by Jan Zwicky's expanded understanding of lyric and use of the fragment-as-method inspired this notebook of misunderstanding. Seeking to read Zwicky in the tradition of the aleatory genre and its basic form, the fragment, Roberts finds that her own sense of poetics and ethics (feminist, poststructural, phenomenological) accords generally with Zwicky's lyric philosophy and epistemology of imagination. Roberts's resonance w…
變!Metamorphosis in Journey to the West
In the 1592 Ming dynasty novel Journey to the West, the Tang dynasty Buddhist monk Xuanzang (玄奘 602-664) embarks on a dangerous journey to India to bring Buddhist sutras back to China. To protect the human monk, the bodhisattva Guanyin sends four attendants, each of whom has undergone metamorphosis. Various transformations enliven and fill the novel: humans change into animals, beasts into human-like forms, and humans and beasts become deities, e…
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