ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ALL OF the essays in this volume have been previously published and appear here with occasional minor revisions (e.g., the supply of Chinese graphs where needed and the adoption throughout of the pinyin system of romanization).

 

Chapter 1, “Literature and Religion,” appeared in The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade (New York: Macmillan, 1987), 8:558–569. Reprinted by permission of Gale, a division of Thomson Learning.

Chapter 2, “New Gods and Old Order: Tragic Theology in Prometheus Bound,” appeared in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 39 (1971): 19–71. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press.

Chapter 3, “Life in the Garden: Freedom and the Image of God in Paradise Lost,” appeared in Journal of Religion 60 (1980): 247–271. Reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Press.

Chapter 4, “The Order of Temptations in Paradise Regained: Implications for Christology,” appeared in Perspectives on Christology: Essays in Honor of Paul K. Jewett, ed. Marguerite Shuster and Richard Muller (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1991), pp. 211–228. Reprinted by permission of Zondervan.

Chapter 5, “Problems and Prospects in Chinese-Western Literary Relations,” appeared in Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 23 (1974): 47–53. Reprinted by permission of the University of North Carolina Studies in Comparative Literature.

Chapter 6, “Narrative Structure and the Problem of Chapter Nine in the Xiyouji,” appeared in Journal of Asian Studies 34 (1975): 295–311. Reprinted by permission of the Association for Asian Studies.

Chapter 7, “Two Literary Examples of Religious Pilgrimage: The Commedia and The Journey to the West,” appeared in History of Religions 22 (1983): 202–230. Reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Press.

Chapter 8, “Religion and Literature in China: The ‘Obscure Way’ of The Journey to the West,” appeared in Tradition and Creativity: Essays on East Asian Civilization, Proceedings of the Lecture Series on East Asian Civilization (Rutgers, State University of New Jersey), ed. Ching-I Tu (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1987), pp. 109–153. Reprinted by permission of Transaction Publishers.

Chapter 9, “The Real Tripitaka Revisited: International Religion and National Politics,” appeared in ASIANetwork Exchange 8, no. 2 (winter 2000): 9–12. Reprinted by permission of ASIANetwork Exchange.

Chapter 10, “‘Rest, Rest, Perturbed Spirit!’: Ghosts in Traditional Chinese Prose Fiction,” appeared in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 47, no. 2 (December 1987): 397–434. Reprinted by permission of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies.

Chapter 11, “Cratylus and the Xunzi on Names,” appeared in Early China/ Ancient Greece: Thinking Through Comparisons, ed. Steven Shankman and Stephen W. Durrant (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), pp. 235–250. Reprinted by permission of the State University of New York.

Chapter 12, “Reading the Daodejing: Ethics and Politics of the Rhetoric,” appeared in Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 25 (Festschrift for Robert Hegel) (2003): 165–187. Reprinted by permission of William N. Nienhauser Jr., editor of CLEAR.

Chapter 13, “Altered Accents: A Comparative View of Liberal Education,” appeared in Criterion (Chicago, University of Chicago Divinity School) 35, no. 2 (1996): 2–11. Reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Chapter 14, “Readability: Religion and the Reception of Translation,” appeared in Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 20 (Festschrift for Eugene Eoyang) (1998): 89–100. Reprinted by permission of William N. Nienhauser Jr.

Chapter 15, “Enduring Change: Confucianism and the Prospect of Human Rights,” appeared first in Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies, n.s., 2 (October 2000): 27–70. It was reprinted with minor revisions without Chinese graphs in Human Rights Review 3, no. 3 (April–June 2002): 65–99. Finally, it was published with further revisions in Does Human Rights Need God? ed. Elizabeth M. Bucar and Barbra Barnett (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2005), pp. 104–132; 309–317. The text of the present chapter collates all three versions with further minor revisions and the restoration of Chinese graphs. Reprinted by permission of Lingnan University, Transaction Publishers, and William B. Eerdmans Publishing.

Chapter 16, “China and the Problem of Human Rights: Ancient Verities and Modern Realities,” appeared in Culture & Religion 6, no. 1 (March 2005): 203–236. Reprinted by permission of the Taylor and Francis Group.