Lisa Raphals
Biographic Data
| ID | 702353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Raphals |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Raphals |
| SIGNATURE | RAPHALS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mind and Psychology in Early China
This Element describes early Chinese views of the heart-mind (xin 心) and its relation to the psychology of a whole person, including the body, affective and cognitive faculties, and the spirit (shén 神). It argues for a divergence in Warring States thought between 'mind-centered' and 'spirit-centered' approaches to self-cultivation. It surveys the Analects, Mengzi, Guanzi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Huainanzi, the Huangdi neijing, and excavated medical manu…
Skilled Feelings in Chinese and Greek Heart-Mind-Body Metaphors
Body, Mind, and Spirit in Early Chinese Medicine
Medical texts especially of the Huangdi neijing 黃帝內經 tradition provide an important counterpoint to philosophical debates about the relation of body and mind in early China and in particular to the understanding of the “mind” ( xin 心), since medical texts must address the role of the xin -heart as one of the visceral systems. This paper surveys accounts of both “mind” and “spirit” ( shen 神) in the Huangdi neijing and proposes a view of a person i…
Body and Mind in the Guodian Manuscripts
Chinese Science Fiction
The relation of science to science fiction in the history of Chinese science fiction has been closely linked to both the influence of Western science and to ideals of progress, nationalism, and empire. But when we turn to China’s long history of philosophical speculation, a rather different story needs to be told. This article examines the ways in which the indigenous Chinese sciences have fed into fiction, and considers the consequences for our …
Languages of Fate
Conclusion
This chapter sums up the chapters in this book to show that the process by which Christianity and Buddhism became established in their respective regions was much more complex than the language of conquest or triumph would suggest. In neither China nor Rome did the new religions simply sweep away the beliefs and customs of the old society; rather, over centuries of interaction and dialogue, the old societies changed the new religions as much as t…
Human and Animal in Early China and Greece
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Old Society, New Belief
In the first century of the Common Era, two new belief systems entered long-established cultures with radically different outlooks and values: in that century, missionaries started to spread the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth in the Roman empire and the Buddha in China. Both were not only ancient cultures but also cultures whose elites felt no particular urgency to adopt a new religion. Yet a few centuries later, the two new faiths had become so …
Astrology and Cosmology in Early China
This groundbreaking book presents a series of historical studies that argue for the deep and ongoing influence of ideas of astral influences via qi 氣 on virtually all aspects of early Chinese civil
Sunzi Versus Xunzi
This article examines two views of the ethics and efficacy of deception. The Sunzi is famous for its praise of deception and indirect strategy in warfare. This explicit praise of deception distinguishes it from other Militarist texts, which either reject deception or advocate it only as a practical and important strategic tool. The Xunzi rejects deception and indirection in both civil and military contexts. The Sunzi and Xunzi 's attitudes toward…
SF Meets the Classics
Uprightness, Indirection, Transparency
Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece
Divination was an important and distinctive aspect of religion in both ancient China and ancient Greece, and this book will provide the first systematic account and analysis of the two side by side. Who practised divination in these cultures and who consulted it? What kind of questions did they ask, and what methods were used to answer those questions? As well as these practical aspects, Lisa Raphals also examines divination as a subject of rheto…
Alterity and Alien Contact in Lao She's Martian Dystopia, Cat Country
This article considers several contexts for the treatment of the themes of alterity and alien contact in Lao She’s Maocheng ji [Cat Country], a work that straddles cultures and raises important questions for scholars of both science fiction and Chinese literature. It examines how Cat Country fits— or does not—into the history of science fiction and also into the development of twentieth-century Chinese literature. Finally, it compares the treatme…
The magnitude of ming
Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiquitous as ming, variously understood as command, allotted lifespan, fate, or life. In the earliest days of Chinese writing, ming was already present, invoked in divinations and etched into ancient bronzes; it has continued to inscribe itself down to the twenty-first century in literature and film. This volume assembles twelve essays by some of the most eminent scholars currently working in Chinese studies…
Innovation in Chinese Medicine
Journal of Chinese PhilosophyVolume 31, Issue 4 p. 552-555 Innovation in Chinese Medicine Lisa Raphals, University of California, RiversideSearch for more papers by this author Lisa Raphals, University of California, RiversideSearch for more papers by this author First published: 15 November 2004 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.2004.00170_6.xCitations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack cit…
Arguments by Women in Early Chinese Texts
A corpus of ethical and political arguments specifically attributed to women in Warring States and Han texts are philosophically comparable to the arguments of the Masters texts, but are not associated with teaching lineages. These hierarchical persuasions and instructive arguments cannot be attributed to ministers. They suggest new perspectives on contemporary discussions of the nature of philosophical debate, adversariality, and authority in Wa…
Ten Thousand Things
Lothar Ledderose begins Ten Thousand Things with an observation that has broad implications for the relationship between technology and culture. He attributes the tremendous productivity of Chinese artists to "production systems to assemble objects from standardized parts" in "modules" that could be mass produced and quickly recombined to create a variety of objects from a limited repertoire of components (p. 1). He argues that modular production…
Imagining Boundaries
The Ways of Confucianism
Sharing the Light
Sharing the Light
Explores historical and philosophical shifts in the depiction of women and virtue in the early years of the Chinese state. Includes an examination of the history of yin-yang theories. Sharing the Light explores historical and philosophical shifts in the depiction of women and virtue in the early centuries of the Chinese state. These changes had far-reaching effects on both the treatment of women in Chinese society and on the formation of Chinese …
The Propensity of Things
In this strikingly original contribution to our understanding of Chinese philosophy, Francle;ois Julien, a French sinologist whose work has not yet appeared in English uses the Chinese concept of shi - meaning disposition or circumstance, power or potential - as a touchstone to explore Chinese culture and to uncover the intricate and coherent structure underlying Chinese modes of thinking.A Hegelian prejudice still haunts studies of ancient Chine…
Skeptical Strategies in the Zhuangzi and Theaetetus
Innovation in Chinese Medicine
Journal of Chinese PhilosophyVolume 31, Issue 4 p. 552-555 Innovation in Chinese Medicine Lisa Raphals, University of California, RiversideSearch for more papers by this author Lisa Raphals, University of California, RiversideSearch for more papers by this author First published: 15 November 2004 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.2004.00170_6.xCitations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack cit…
Chinese Science Fiction
The relation of science to science fiction in the history of Chinese science fiction has been closely linked to both the influence of Western science and to ideals of progress, nationalism, and empire. But when we turn to China’s long history of philosophical speculation, a rather different story needs to be told. This article examines the ways in which the indigenous Chinese sciences have fed into fiction, and considers the consequences for our …
Skeptical Strategies in the "Zhuangzi" and "Theaetetus
Alterity and Alien Contact in Lao She's Martian Dystopia, Cat Country
This article considers several contexts for the treatment of the themes of alterity and alien contact in Lao She’s Maocheng ji [Cat Country], a work that straddles cultures and raises important questions for scholars of both science fiction and Chinese literature. It examines how Cat Country fits— or does not—into the history of science fiction and also into the development of twentieth-century Chinese literature. Finally, it compares the treatme…
The Philosophical Foundations of Han Fei's Political Theory . Hsiao-po Wang , Leo S. Chang
The Shape of the Turtle
Poetry and Argument in the Zhuangzi
(1994). Poetry and Argument in the Zhuangzi. Journal of Chinese Religions: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 103-116
Knowing Words
The Cunning of Tradition
Skeptical Strategies in the "Zhuangzi" and "Theaetetus
Law and Morality in Ancient China
A Language Theory of Chinese ThoughtA Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought
Skeptical Strategies in the Zhuangzi and Theaetetus
Knowing Words
Sharing the Light
Explores historical and philosophical shifts in the depiction of women and virtue in the early years of the Chinese state. Includes an examination of the history of yin-yang theories. Sharing the Light explores historical and philosophical shifts in the depiction of women and virtue in the early centuries of the Chinese state. These changes had far-reaching effects on both the treatment of women in Chinese society and on the formation of Chinese …
The Propensity of Things
In this strikingly original contribution to our understanding of Chinese philosophy, Francle;ois Julien, a French sinologist whose work has not yet appeared in English uses the Chinese concept of shi - meaning disposition or circumstance, power or potential - as a touchstone to explore Chinese culture and to uncover the intricate and coherent structure underlying Chinese modes of thinking.A Hegelian prejudice still haunts studies of ancient Chine…
The Ways of Confucianism
Sharing the Light
Arguments by Women in Early Chinese Texts
A corpus of ethical and political arguments specifically attributed to women in Warring States and Han texts are philosophically comparable to the arguments of the Masters texts, but are not associated with teaching lineages. These hierarchical persuasions and instructive arguments cannot be attributed to ministers. They suggest new perspectives on contemporary discussions of the nature of philosophical debate, adversariality, and authority in Wa…
Ten Thousand Things
Lothar Ledderose begins Ten Thousand Things with an observation that has broad implications for the relationship between technology and culture. He attributes the tremendous productivity of Chinese artists to "production systems to assemble objects from standardized parts" in "modules" that could be mass produced and quickly recombined to create a variety of objects from a limited repertoire of components (p. 1). He argues that modular production…
Imagining Boundaries
Innovation in Chinese Medicine
Journal of Chinese PhilosophyVolume 31, Issue 4 p. 552-555 Innovation in Chinese Medicine Lisa Raphals, University of California, RiversideSearch for more papers by this author Lisa Raphals, University of California, RiversideSearch for more papers by this author First published: 15 November 2004 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.2004.00170_6.xCitations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack cit…
The magnitude of ming
Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiquitous as ming, variously understood as command, allotted lifespan, fate, or life. In the earliest days of Chinese writing, ming was already present, invoked in divinations and etched into ancient bronzes; it has continued to inscribe itself down to the twenty-first century in literature and film. This volume assembles twelve essays by some of the most eminent scholars currently working in Chinese studies…
Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece
Divination was an important and distinctive aspect of religion in both ancient China and ancient Greece, and this book will provide the first systematic account and analysis of the two side by side. Who practised divination in these cultures and who consulted it? What kind of questions did they ask, and what methods were used to answer those questions? As well as these practical aspects, Lisa Raphals also examines divination as a subject of rheto…
Alterity and Alien Contact in Lao She's Martian Dystopia, Cat Country
This article considers several contexts for the treatment of the themes of alterity and alien contact in Lao She’s Maocheng ji [Cat Country], a work that straddles cultures and raises important questions for scholars of both science fiction and Chinese literature. It examines how Cat Country fits— or does not—into the history of science fiction and also into the development of twentieth-century Chinese literature. Finally, it compares the treatme…
Uprightness, Indirection, Transparency
Astrology and Cosmology in Early China
This groundbreaking book presents a series of historical studies that argue for the deep and ongoing influence of ideas of astral influences via qi 氣 on virtually all aspects of early Chinese civil
Sunzi Versus Xunzi
This article examines two views of the ethics and efficacy of deception. The Sunzi is famous for its praise of deception and indirect strategy in warfare. This explicit praise of deception distinguishes it from other Militarist texts, which either reject deception or advocate it only as a practical and important strategic tool. The Xunzi rejects deception and indirection in both civil and military contexts. The Sunzi and Xunzi 's attitudes toward…
SF Meets the Classics
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