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Allan, Sarah Katherine was born on February 20, 1945 in Atlanta. Daughter of Frederic and Elizabeth (Jones) Meyers.
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The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art, and Cosmos in Early China (Chinese Philosophy and Culture Series)
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Many Chinese philosophic concepts derive from an ancient cosmology. This work is the first reconstructions of the mythic thought of the Shang Dynasty (ca. 1700- 1100 B.C.) which laid the foundation for later Chinese patterns of thought. Allan regards the myth, cosmology, divination, sacrificial ritual, and art of the Shang as different manifestations of a common religious system and each is examined in turn, building up a coherent and consistent picture. Although primarily concerned with the Shang, this work also describes the manner in which Shang thought was transformed in the later textual tradition.
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The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art, and Cosmos in Early China (Chinese Philosophy and Culture Series) (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) by Allan, Sarah (1991) Paperback
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(Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue) Author: Sarah Allan published on (June, 1997)
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The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue (Suny Series, Chinese Philosophy & Culture) by Allan, Sarah (1997) Paperback
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The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue (Suny Series, Chinese Philosophy & Culture)
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Explicates early Chinese thought and explores the relationship between language and thought. This book maintains that early Chinese philosophers, whatever their philosophical school, assumed common principles informed the natural and human worlds and that one could understand the nature of man by studying the principles which govern nature. Accordingly, the natural world rather than a religious tradition provided the root metaphors of early Chinese thought. Sarah Allan examines the concrete imagery, most importantly water and plant life, which served as a model for the most fundamental concepts in Chinese philosophy including such ideas as dao, the "way," de, "virtue" or "potency," xin, the "mind/heart," xing "nature," and qi, "vital energy." Water, with its extraordinarily rich capacity for generating imagery, provided the primary model for conceptualizing general cosmic principles while plants provided a model for the continuous sequence of generation, growth, reproduction, and death and was the basis for the Chinese understanding of the nature of man in both religion and philosophy. "I find this book unique among recent efforts to identify and explain essential features of early Chinese thought, because of its emphasis on imagery and metaphor." -- Christian Jochim, San Jose State University
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Sarah Katherine Allan
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Bachelor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1966. Master of Arts, University California-Berkeley, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, 1974.
Career
Lecturer to senior lecturer Chinese School Oriental & African Studies, University London, 1972—1995. Professor Asian studies honor Richard M. Bressler Dartmouth College, Burlington Northern Foundation, since 1995. Founder chairman Early China Seminar, London, 1982—1995.
Chair Society Study Early China, since 2009. Editor Early China, since 2009.
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The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue (Suny Series, Chinese Philosophy & Culture)
(Explicates early Chinese thought and explores the relatio...)
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The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art, and Cosmos in Early China (Chinese Philosophy and Culture Series)
(Many Chinese philosophic concepts derive from an ancient ...)
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The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art and Cosmos in Early China (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture (Paperback)) (Paperback) - Common
(The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art and Cosmos in Early China)
- The heir and the sage: Dynastic legend in early China (Asian libraries series)
- The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art, and Cosmos in Early China (Chinese Philosophy and Culture Series) (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) by Allan, Sarah (1991) Paperback
- (Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue) Author: Sarah Allan published on (June, 1997)
- The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Cu
- The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue (Suny Series, Chinese Philosophy & Culture) Paperback - June 12, 1997
- The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue (Suny Series, Chinese Philosophy & Culture) by Allan, Sarah (1997) Paperback
- (The Shape of the Turtle: Myth, Art and Cosmos in Early China) Author: Sarah Allan published on (February, 1991)
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The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue (Suny Series, Chinese Philosophy & Culture)
Membership
Member of Association Asian Studies, Society Study Early China, European Association Chinese Studies, British Association Chinese Studies.
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Married Nicol Allan Allan, September 28, 1963.
