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âœContrary to common claims about the absence of individualism in early China and its supposed reification in âthe West,â both the Western and Chinese traditions have historically been characterized by diverse and constantly evolving attitudes toward the individual. This book serves as an important corrective to monolithic or essentializing accounts of early Chinese thought, and the narrative concerning the evolution of the concept of the individual in early China is an interesting and novel one. It will appeal widely to people working on early Chinese thought and comparative religion more broadly.â âEdward Slingerland, University of British Columbia. âœThere is a great deal of resistance to the very applicability of the concept of individualism in early China. In this impressively ambitious project, Erica Brindley succeeds in deploying the concept to the understanding of early Chinese thought. In exploring the emergence of and response to distinctively Chinese forms of individuals, sh

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      Publisher University of Hawai'i Press
      Published 7/30/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780824833862
      978-0824833862
      ISBN-10 0824833864
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      Sociology and anthropology

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      Book Synopsis
      âœContrary to common claims about the absence of individualism in early China and its supposed reification in âthe West,â both the Western and Chinese traditions have historically been characterized by diverse and constantly evolving attitudes toward the individual. This book serves as an important corrective to monolithic or essentializing accounts of early Chinese thought, and the narrative concerning the evolution of the concept of the individual in early China is an interesting and novel one. It will appeal widely to people working on early Chinese thought and comparative religion more broadly.â âEdward Slingerland, University of British Columbia. âœThere is a great deal of resistance to the very applicability of the concept of individualism in early China. In this impressively ambitious project, Erica Brindley succeeds in deploying the concept to the understanding of early Chinese thought. In exploring the emergence of and response to distinctively Chinese forms of individuals, sh

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