Kidder Smith

Biographic Data

ID3831774
NAMEKidder Smith
GIVEN NAMESKidder
FAMILY NAMESmith
SIGNATURESMITH K
AFFILIATIONSBowdoin College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX2

  • Having Once Paused

    Sarah Messer, Ikkyu Sojun et al.BOOKHaving Once Paused2015

    The influence of Zen Master Ikkyū (1394-1481) permeates the full field of medieval Japanese aesthetics. Though best known as a poet, he was central to the shaping and reshaping of practices in calligraphy, Noh theater, tea ceremony, and rock gardening, all of which now define Japan's sense of its cultural tradition. Ikkyū is unique in Zen for letting his love of all appearance occupy him until it destroys any possibility for safety or seclusion. …

  • The Violence of Liberation

    Open AccessKidder SmithARTICLEReligious Studies Review2008

  • Tibetan Renaissance

    Open AccessKidder SmithARTICLEReligious Studies Review2007

  • A Love Letter

    Open AccessBowdoin College, Kidder SmithARTICLEInternational Journal of…2005

  • Sima Tan and the Invention of Daoism, "Legalism,"et cetera

    Open AccessKidder SmithARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies2003Cited by: 7References: 17

    Here's a short version: The "-ism" we invoke when we posit things like "Daoism" was glimpsed for the first time by Sima Tan. (d. 110b.c.e.), lord grand astrologer (taishigong) to the Han court. His essay "Yaozhi"(Essential points), included in the final chapter of his son Sima Qian'sTaishigong, analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of six approaches to governance:Yinyang,Ru(known to us as Confucians),Mo(the Mohists),Fajia(called Legalists),Mingji…

  • Contextualized Translation of the Yijing

    Kidder Smith, Edward L Shaughnessy et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy East and West1999

    Kidder Smith, Contextualized Translation of the Yijing, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 49, No. 3, Human "Nature" in Chinese Philosophy: A Panel of the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (Jul., 1999), pp. 377-383

  • Yizhuan zhi xingcheng ji qi sixiang (The Form of the [Yijing's] Ten Wings and Their Thought)

    Kidder Smith, Dai LianzhangARTICLEPhilosophy East and West1991

  • Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching

    Kidder Smith, Don J Wyatt et al.BOOKSung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching1990

    The I Ching , or Book of Changes, has been one of the two or three most influential books in the Chinese canon. It has been used by people on all levels of society, both as a method of divination and as a source of essential ideas about the nature of heaven, earth, and humankind. During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Sung dynasty literati turned to it for guidance in their fundamental reworking of the classical traditions. This book explores…

  • Zhouyi Interpretation From Accounts in The Zuozhuan

    Kidder SmithARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1989Cited by: 2

  • The Taoist I Ching

    Kidder Smith, Thomas ClearyARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1988