Abrams, M. H.
Achilles
Adam; and Eve; in Paradise Lost
Aeneas
Aeschylus
afterlife. See underworld
Agamemnon
Ahlström, G. W.
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke
alchemy; and Journey to the West
Alcuin
Alethia (Marius Victor)
Alexander the Great
alphabet, phonetic
Ambrose
Ames, Roger
Amoghavajra (Bukong)
Analects (Lunyu; Confucius): on ancestors; on Confucius; dao in; and Daodejing; on food; on ghosts; and individual rights; on names; negative Golden Rule in; on reciprocity
ancestor worship; modern; and morality; and the state
Annals of Lü Buwei (Lüshi chunqiu)
Antigone (Sophocles)
Aquinas, Thomas
Āraṇyakas
Archimedes
Areopagitica (Milton)
Aristotle; and education; and individual vs. group; and Journey to the West; on names; and Paradise Lost; and Prometheus Bound
Arminius, Jacob
Ars poetica (Horace)
Art of Chinese Poetry (Liu)
Asimov, Isaac
Association for Asian Studies
astronomy
Aśvaghosa
atē (god-sent delusion)
Auerbach, Erich
Augustine, Saint; and Paradise Lost; and pilgrimage
avadāna tales
Avison, Charles
Ba Jin
Babel, biblical myth of
Baihei lun (On Black and White; Huilin)
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Bao Gong
Baopuzi
Barth, Karl
Barthes, Roland
Baxter, Timothy M. S.
Beatrice (Commedia)
Bede, the Venerable
Bengali language
Benjamin, Walter
Beowulf
Bhagavadgītā
Bible; epistolary literature in; humor in; Job; as literature; Matthew; and pilgrimage; poetry in; and Prometheus Bound; temptations of Christ in; translations of. See also Genesis
Bibliotheca Sinica (Cordier)
Bo Juyi
Bodde, Derk
Boltz, William
Bonaventura, Saint
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Boniface, Pope
Book of Mormon
Bowers, Fredson
Brecht, Bertolt
Bremmer, J. M.
Brewitt-Taylor, C. H.
Buddha-carita kavya sūtra (Aśvaghosa)
Buddhism; and Chinese literature; and Chinese poetry; vs. Confucianism; Consciousness-only school of (Weishi zong); vs. Daoism; and ghosts; in Journey to the West; modern; Pure Land; redemption in; and the state. See also Chan (Zen) Buddhism
Buddhist scriptures; translations of; and Xuanzang
Buitenen, Hans van
Bultmann, Rudolf
bureaucracy, Chinese; of underworld
Burke, Kenneth
Burmeister, Joachim
Buruma, Ian
Bury, J. B.
Cai Yan
Cairns, David
calligraphy
Calvin, John
Calvinism
The Cambridge History of China
Campion, Thomas
Camus, Albert
Canglang shihua
Cantonese language, xi–xii
Cantongqi. See Kinship of the Three
Cao Pi
Cao Yu
Carmen Paschale (Sedulius)
Cast Away (film)
Castelvetro, Lodovico
catharsis
Cathemerinon (Prudentius)
Catholicism; in PRC
Central Asia
Chan (Zen) Buddhism; and Chinese poetry; and humor; in Journey to the West
Chang, H. C.
Chang’an
Chang’e
The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds (Spence)
Chanson de Roland
Chao Cuo
Chastellux, Jean
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chekhov, Anton
Chen Duxiu
Chen Guangrui (Journey to the West)
Chen Guying
Chen Han
Chen Hui
Chen Kang
Chen Menglei
Chen Shibin
Chen Shixiang
Chiang, Madame (Song Meiling)
Chiang Kai-shek
China, People’s Republic of (PRC): human rights in; and human rights treaties; and Journey to the West; language reform in; religion in
China, Republic of (ROC). See also Nationalist Party; Taiwan
China in Western Literature (comp. Yuan Tongli)
Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Chinese culture: changeability of; and education; family and religion in; vs. Greek culture; and human rights; and Indian culture; individual in; and language; and religion; uniqueness of; Western study of
The Chinese Knight Errant (Liu)
Chinese language; concept of self in; and Daodejing; dialects of; God in; vs. Greek language; homophones in; Mandarin vs. Cantonese; on names; and phonetics; “rights” (quan) in; romanization of; and Sanskrit; vernacular (yutiwen, baihuawen), xi–xii
Chinese language, written; and computers; simplified; vs. spoken
Chinese literature: ancient; and Buddhism; and Daoism; and historiography; incompatible norms in; Indian influence on; mythical characters in; and religion; supernatural in; translations of; vernacular; vs. Western literature. See also particular works
Chinese Revolution (1911)
Ching, Julia
Chow Tse-tsung
Christ; crucifixion of; vs. filial piety; in Paradise Lost; passivity of; and pilgrimage; and Prometheus; as Son of God; temptations of
Christianity: and art; and Chinese culture; and education; food in; and Greco-Roman culture; and history; and infancy; and KMT; law in; literature of; and pilgrimage; poetry in; in PRC; and Prometheus Bound; and the state; theodicy in; and Western literature. See also Bible; Catholicism; Protestantism
chuanqi (transmissions of the marvelous)
Chuci (Songs of the South)
La chute (Camus)
Cicero
City of God (Augustine)
civil service examinations
Classic of Change (Yijing), xiv; on ghosts
Classic of Documents (Classic of History; Shujing; Shangshu)
Classic of Filial Piety (Xiaojing)
Classic of Poetry (Book of Odes; Shijing)
Classic of Ritual. See Record of Rites; Yi Li
Claudel, Paul
Clement of Alexandria
cloning
Coffin, Charles
Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry
Combarieu, Jules
The Combate Between Christ and the Devill Expounded (Perkins)
Comestor, Peter
Commedia (Dante); culinary symbolism in; Inferno; and Journey to the West; Paradiso; as pilgrimage; Purgatorio
Communism. See also Chinese Communist Party
computers
Comus (Milton)
Confessions (Augustine)
Confucianism: vs. Buddhism; in Chinese culture; and Chinese literature; and Christianity; classics of; and Dai Zhen; dao in; and Daodejing; vs. Daoism; on desire; and education; of elite; on food; and human rights; and humor; on the individual; and Journey to the West; and law; modern; on names; vs. popular religion; reciprocity in; revision of; revival of; and rulership; secularism of; and the state. See also Neo-Confucianism
Confucius; and education; on food; on ghosts; and Laozi; on law; on names; negative Golden Rule of; on reciprocity; on remonstrance; on “rights”; and ritual; on the state; worship of. See also Analects
Cordier, Henri
Cratylus (Plato)
Creel, H. G.
A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism (McGann)
Croce, Benedetto
Culler, Jonathan
culture: changeability of; Greco-Roman; Greek; and human rights; Indian; and language. See also Chinese culture; Western culture
Curtius, E. R.
Cyprian
Dai Zhen
Dalby, Michael
dance
Dante Alighieri. See also Commedia
dao (the Way); in Confucianism; and reversion; and rulership
Daodejing (Classic of the Way and Virtue); new texts of; rhetoric of; and rulership; themes of
Daoism: and alchemy; vs. Buddhism; and Chinese literature; vs. Confucianism; and desire; and ghosts; and Huang-Lao; and humor; infancy in; in Journey to the West; reversion in; and the state
Dartmouth Conference (International Conference, Dartmouth College, May 1998)
Davie, Donald
Dawe, R. D.
Dazai Osamu
de (virtue)
de Bary, Theodore
De Doctrina Christiana (Milton)
de Gaulle, Charles
de Groot, J.J.M.
de Rougemont, Denis
De trinitate (Augustine)
deconstructionism
Delphi oracle
Demaray, John
democracy; and Confucianism; in Daodejing; and individualism; and knowledge; in RoC; and social order
Democratic Progress Party (Taiwan)
Derrida, Jacques
description translation studies
desire
Di Renjie
Diamond Sūtra (Jin’gang jing; Vajracchedik āprajñpāramitā sūtra)
Didascalia apostolorum (Teachings of the Apostles)
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
divination
Divine Comedy. See Commedia
Dodds, E. R.
Don Juan
Dong Zhongshu
Donne, John
Dragon-Prince (white horse; Journey to the West)
drama; Chinese; Journey to the West as; Noh; Western. See also Shakespeare, William
Dravidian language
Dream of the Red Chamber (Hong-lou meng)
Du Fu
Duan Yucai
Dudbridge, Glen
Dumezil, Georges
Dunhuang texts
“Early Civilization in China: Reflections on How It Became Chinese” (Keightley)
Eberhard, Wolfram
economics: and education; free-market; and globalization
education: Aristotle on; Chinese; and Christianity; Confucian; and economics; in Greece; Indian influence on Chinese; and knowledge; liberal; and morality; Plato on; and politics; and religion; and “rights”; and the state; in Taiwan; technical vs. liberal; Western model of
Egypt
Eliade, Mircea
Elijah
Eliot, George
Eliot, T. S.
elite, Chinese; and Confucianism; and ghosts; and rulership
emperor, Chinese; accountability of; and law; in modern world; terms for. See also individual emperors
Empson, William
Endō Shūsaku
English language; alphabet of; translations into
enlightenment
the Enlightenment
Enuma elish
Eoyang, Eugene
epic form
Epic of Gilgamesh
Epicurus
Eratosthenes
Eriugena, John Scottus
Etiemble, René
Eumenides (Aeschylus)
Euripides
Europe. See also Western culture
Eusebius
Eve; guilt of; in Paradise Lost; and temptations of Christ
evil, problem of; in Paradise Lost; in Prometheus Bound. See also theodicy
exile, theme of
L’existentialisme est un humanisme (Sartre)
Expository Commentary on the Meaning of Mencian Words (Dai Zhen)
The Faerie Queene (Spenser)
the Fall; and Commedia; and Prometheus Bound; and temptations of Christ
Falun Gong
family; and Buddhism; vs. individual; and morality; reciprocity in; and the state; in U.S.; of Xuanzang
fan (reversion)
Fan Wenzi
Fan Zhen
Fang Dongshu
Fang Lizhi
Faure, Bernard
Faust, theme of
Fei Xiaotong
feminist criticism
Feng Menglong
Fenollosa, Ernest
Feuchtwang, Stephan
filial piety; and ancestor worship; as basis for morality; vs. loyalty; and underworld. See also Classic of Filial Piety
Findlay, J. N.
Fish, Stanley
Five Human Relationships (wu lun)
Five Phases (wuxing)
food; as human right; as symbol
The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel (Plaks)
fox spirits
Frankfurt, H.
freedom; in Paradise Lost; of the press; of religion
Freudianism
Frodsham, J. D.
Frye, Northrup
Fu, James
Fu Yi
Fucha, king of Wu
Fukunaga Mitsuiji
Gadamer, Hans
Gan Bao
Gao Panlong
Gao Yougong
Gaozi
Gaozu (Han emperor)
Ge Hong
gender: and imago dei; and inequality. See also Eve; women
Genesis; and Paradise Lost; and Prometheus Bound
genre theory
George, Arapara Ghevarghese
Gewirth, Alan
ghosts (gui); amorous; apologues for; avenging; and Buddhism; Confucius on; and Daoism; of evil stepmothers; as gods; skepticism about; sounds made by
Gilgamesh
Girard, René
globalization
God, Christian; Chinese terms for; Christ as Son of; image of (imago dei); and language; in Paradise Lost. See also Bible; theodicy
gods: in Chinese literature; in Greek literature; and humanity; in Indian literature; pre-Hellenic; in Shang religion
Goethe, J. W.
Goheen, R. F.
Gold Cicada (Xuanzang)
Golden, Leon
“The Golden Hairpin”
Graham, A. C.,9
Great Britain
Great Learning (Daxue)
Greco-Roman culture
Greek culture: vs. Chinese culture; education in; and language; law in
Greek language; vs. Chinese language; concept of self in; names in
Greek literature; vs. Christian texts; gods in; tragedy in
Gregory I, Pope (the Great)
Gregory VII, Pope
Grene, David
Grotius, Hugo
Gu Yanwu
Guan Yu
Guanyin (Avalokiteśvara)
Guanzi
Guillén, Claudio
guilt
Gujin tushu jicheng (comp. Chen Menglei)
Gujin xiaoshuo (Fiction Old and New; Feng Menglong)
Guo Moruo
Guodian texts
Guoyu
Habermas, Jürgen
Hakka language
hamartia (tragic error)
Han dynasty; religion in
Han Shan (Cold Mountain)
Han Yu
Hanan, Patrick
Hanfeizi
Hanford, James Holly
Hansen, Chad
Harbsmeier, Christoph
A Harmonie of the Gospels (Calvin)
Hartman, Geoffrey
Hawkes, David
He Zhizhang
Heart Sūtra (Xinjing)
heart/mind (xin)
Hebrew language
Hebrew literature. See also Bible
Hector
Hegel, G.W.F.
Heidegger, Martin
Hendricks, Robert
Henry IV (king of England)
Hephaestus (Prometheus Bound)
Heracles
Heracles (Euripides)
Herbert, George
Hermes (Prometheus Bound)
Hermogenes (Cratylus)
Herodotus
heroes
Hesiod
Hesse, Hermann
Hiero of Syracuse
Hightower, James
Hindi language
Hinduism
Hippolytus (Euripides)
Hirsch, E. D.
Historia evangelica (Juvencus)
historiography, Chinese
History of Chinese Vernacular Literature (Baihua wenxueshi; Hu Shi)
History of Love (Feng Menglong)
History of the Pelopennesian War (Thucydides)
Homer
homophones; and simplified characters; in Zhuangzi
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Mai
Hong Pian
Hopkirk, Peter
Horace
Howard, Richard
Hsia, C. T.
Hu Shi; on Journey to the West; on Laozi; on Xuanzang
Huang Suqiu
Huang Tingjian
Huang Zongxi
Huangfu Xun
Huang-Lao
Huilin
Huiyuan
human nature (xing)
human relations (renlun): and concept of self; and desire; Five (wu lun); reciprocity in
human rights: and Chinese culture; and Confucianism; and food; individual; international treaties on; particularistic vs. universal; and religion
humor
hunpo (soul, spirit)
Huo Shixiu
Iliad (Homer)
imago dei; and gender
immortality; in Journey to the West
imperialism
India: culture of; influence on Chinese literature of; in Journey to the West; languages of; literature of; Xuanzang’s journey to
individual: in Chinese culture; and democracy; and desire; and education; vs. family; vs. group; vs. hierarchical social structure; vs. individualism; limits on; moral autonomy of; and religion; rights of; vs. the state
individualism; and democracy; vs. individual; Western
Indo-European languages
Inferno (Dante). See also Commedia
Institutes (Calvin)
Io (Prometheus Bound)
Irenaeus
Iser, Wolfgang
Isidore of Seville
Islam
Israel
Ivanhoe, Philip J.
Jacquot, Jean
Jaeger, Werner
Jakobson, Roman
James, William
Japan; language of; literature of
Jauss, H. R.
Jefferson, Thomas
Jerome, Saint
Jerusalem
Jesuits
Jia Shan
Jia Yi
Jiandeng xinhua (New Tales Written While Trimming the Wick; Qu You)
Jiang Zemin
Jiao Hong
Jin Ping Mei
Jingshi tongyan (Comprehensive Words to Admonish the World; Feng Menglong)
Job
Johnson, Barbara
Jonestown
Journey to the West (Xiyouji); alchemy in; antecedents of; authorship of; Buddhism in; central characters in; Chen Guangrui in; and Commedia; and Confucianism; Daoism in; humor in; as pilgrimage; religious themes in; return motif in; satire in; sources for; supernatural in; translations of; underworld in. See also Xuanzang
Joyaux, Georges
Judaism; texts of. See also Bible; Hebrew literature
judiciary, independent
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
junzi (superior man)
justice: Chinese; of gods; and human rights; retributive
Juvencus
Kadeer, Rebiya
Kannada language
karma
Kasulis, T. P.
kāvya style (Indian literature)
Kawabata Yasunari
Keightley, David N.
Kerényi, Karl
Kermode, Frank
King, Ambrose
Kinship of the Three (Zhou Yi cantongqi; Wei Boyang)
Kissinger, Henry
Kitagawa, Joseph
KMT. See Nationalist Party
Knoblock, John
knowledge; and democracy; and education; and suffering
Korea
Korean language
Kratos (Prometheus Bound)
Kroll, Paul
Kurosawa Akira
Lacan, Jacques
Lactantius
Lang, Olga
language; Chinese view of; in Christianity; and culture; and dialects; Indian studies of; and politics; spoken word in; temporality of; Western views of; written vs. spoken. See also names; particular languages
Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra
Laozi (Lao Dan); biography of; and Confucius; and infancy; in Journey to the West; on law; on rulership. See also Daodejing
Laozi’s Scripture of the Way (Laozi Daojing)
Latin
Lattimore, Owen
Lau, D. C.
Lau, Joseph S. M.
law: in education; equality before; and religion; and revenge; Roman; rule of; U.S.
The Laws (Plato)
Leclerq, Jean
Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Teng-hui
Legalism
Legge, James
Lenin, V. I.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Lewalski, Barbara
Lewis, C. S.
Li Bo
Li Daliang
Li Fuyan
Li Hua
Li Ji
Li Mei
Li sao
Li Shangyin
Li Shimin. See Taizong
Li Si
Li Yu
Li Zhi
Liang Qichao
Liaozhai zhiyi (Tales of the Unusual from the Leisure Studio; Pu Songling)
The Libation Bearers (Aeschylus)
liberalism: and Confucianism; in education; and individual; and religion
Lieb, Michael
Lieyi zhuan (Records of Marvels; Cao Pi)
life fulfillment (sui sheng)
Liji. See Record of Rites
Lin, Julia
Ling Mengchu
literacy. See also education
The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons (Liu Xie)
literature: Bible as; comparative; epistolary; examples of religion in; genetic relations of; imaginative; mythical characters in; of pilgrimage; and religion; secular; translation of; travel; vernacular. See also literatures of particular cultures
Liu, James J. Y.
Liu Cunren (Liu Ts’un-yan)
Liu Dakui
Liu Fu
Liu Xi
Liu Xie
Liu Yiming
Liu Yiqing
Liushi jia xiaoshuo (Sixty Stories; pub. Hong Pian)
Liuyi zhuan
Lloyd-Jones, Hugh
Locke, John
Long, John H.
Long Yingtai
Lotus Sutra
Lovejoy, A. O.
Lowe-Porter, H. T.
Lu Gwei-Djen
Lu Ji
Lu Jia
Lu Xun
Lucy, Saint
Lun heng (Carefully Weighted Arguments; Wang Chong)
Lunyu. See Analects
Luo Genze
Luo Qinshun
Luo Xianglin
Lüshi chunqiu (Annals of Lü Buwei)
Luther, Martin
Ma, Y. W.
Ma Danyang
magic. See also supernatural
Mahābhārata
Mahathir Mohamad
Mair, Victor
Malayalam language
Malraux, André
Mandate of Heaven
Manetti, Giannozzo
Mann, Thomas
Manual for Family Instruction (Jiaxun; Yan Zhitui)
Mao Zedong
Marius Victor
Marlowe, Christopher
marriage. See also Five Human Relationships
Marx, Karl
Marxism
Mather, Richard
Matthiessen, F. O.
Maudgalyāyana
Mawangdui texts; of Daodejing; on Huang-Lao
May Fourth Movement
McColley, Diane Kelsey
McGann, Jerome J.
the Mean (Zhongyong; Doctrine of the Mean)
Mei Zulin
Melville, Herman
“Memorial Against the Buddha’s Relics” (Han Yu)
Mencius; and Dai Zhen; and Daodejing; on desire; on law; on reciprocity; on rescue of sister-in-law; on “rights”; on ruler-ship
Mesopotamian literature
Metaphysics (Aristotle)
Methodius
Middlemarch (Eliot)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare)
Miller, James W.
Milton, John; and Barth; and Prometheus Bound. See also Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes
mind. See heart/mind
Ming dynasty
Mingxiang (disciple of Xuanzang)
Mingxiang ji (Dark Omens Recorded; Wang Yan)
Minturno, Antonio
Minucius Felix
Miram Bai
Mishima Yukio
modernization; and imperial state; and religion
Mohism
Monkey. See Sun Wukong
Monkey: Folk Novel of China (Waley’s translation of Journey to the West)
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Moral Man and Immoral Society (Niebuhr)
morality: and Chinese family; communitarian; conflicts of norms in; and education; of gods; Greek; and individual; political
Mori Ōgai
Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
mortality
Moses
Mozi
Mulian
music
“The Myth of the Fall” (Yu)
names; and actuality (shi); in Daodejing; definitions of; in Greek; maker of; meaning of; purpose of; rectification of (zheng ming); School of
nationalism
Nationalist Party (Kuomintang; KMT)
Natsume Sōseki
Natural Supernaturalism (Abrams)
nature; in Daodejing; in Paradise Lost; in Prometheus Bound
Needham, Joseph
Neo-Confucianism; and Journey to the West
Neroni, Baccio
Nestorianism
New Criticism
Newman, John Henry
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Nie Xiaoqian
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Niu Sengru
Nixon, Richard
Norwood, Gilbert
Obituary of Xuanzang (Mingxiang)
“An Occasional Composition on Returning Home” (He Zhizhang)
Oceanus (Prometheus Bound)
Odysseus
Odyssey (Homer)
Oedipus
Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)
Okuno Shintarō
On Christian Doctrine (Augustine)
On Christian Doctrine (Milton)
“On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” (Milton)
O’Neill, Eugene
Oracle bone inscriptions
oral tradition
Oresteia
Ovid
paganism
Paget, Nathan
Paidagōgus (Clement of Alexandria)
Paideia (Jaeger)
Pakistan
Palestine
Pali language
Pandora
Pāṇini
papacy
paper
Paradise Lost (Milton); and Christ; and Daodejing; Eve in; and Genesis; and Paradise Regained; Satan in
Paradise Regained (Milton); and Paradise Lost; Satan in
Paradiso (Dante). See also Commedia
Parry-Lord technique
Patroclus
Patten, Christopher
Paul, apostle
Paula, Lady
Peerenboom, R.
Penthesileia Painter
Peregrinatio aetheriae
Peristephanon (Prudentius)
Perkins, William
The Persians (Aeschylus)
Phaedrus (Plato)
phenomenology
Pichois, Claude
Pigsy. See Zhu Bajie
pilgrimage; benefits of; in Christianity; group; Journey to the West as; symbolism of; in Tannhäuser
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan)
Pindar
Pitman, Don
Plaks, Andrew
Plato; and education; on names
Plutarch
Poan jingqi (Striking the Table in Amazement at the Wonders; comp. Ling Mengchu)
Podlecki, Anthony J.
Poetics (Aristotle)
poetry: in Christianity; criticism of; Hebraic; Japanese; and religion; theory of; translation of
poetry, Chinese: and Buddhism; ci (lyric); and Daodejing; and ghosts; imaginative; Indian influence on; in Journey to the West; by Mao; and painting; within prose; religion in; secularism of; Tang; tonal metrics in; translation of
politics: cultural; and Daodejing; and education; and family; and language; and morality; and religion
Politics (Aristotle)
Polo, Marco
Porter, Andrew
Potter, Pitman B.
Pound, Ezra
Prakrit language
PRC. See China, People’s Republic of
Preface on the Holy Religion (Shengjiao xu)
press, free
printing
Prometheia (trilogy; Aeschylus)
Prometheus; love for humanity of
Prometheus, The Firebearer (Aeschylus),3
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus); chorus in; and Christianity; gods in; problem of evil in; structure of; suffering in
“Prose Elegy for an Ancient Battlefield” (Li Hua)
prose fiction, Chinese; classical; didactic; Indian influence on; male authorship of; poetry within; supernatural in; translation of; vernacular; vs. Western. See also particular works
Prošek, Jaroslav
Protagoras
Protestantism; in China; and Paradise Lost
Prudentius
pseudo-Sibylline Oracles
psychoanalysis
Psychomachia (Prudentius)
Pu Songling
Purgatorio (Dante). See also Commedia
Pye, Lucian
qi (vital breath)
Qin dynasty
Qin Shihuangdi
Qing dynasty
Qingshi leilue (A Classified History of Love; comp. Feng Menglong)
Qingsuo gaoyi (Lofty Opinions Under the Green-Latticed Window; comp. Liu Fu)
Qiu Chuji
Qu You
Quan Tangshi (Complete Tang poems)
Quanzhen (Perfection of Authenticity) school
Rabanus Maurus
Rabelais, François
Rāmāyaṇa (Vālmīki)
Rao Zongyi
Raphael (angel)
reception theory
reciprocity: Chinese terms for; and human rights
Record of Music (Yueji)
Record of Rites (Liji); on ancestors; on ghosts; on hierarchy
Record of Western Territories (Xiyu ji; Xuanzang). See Western Territories of the Great Tang
Recorded Sayings of Chan Master Benji of Mount Cao
redemption; in Buddhism; in Christianity; in Dante; in Journey to the West; in Milton; through suffering
Reinhardt, Karl
religion: Chinese; comparative; freedom of; and humor; and literature; texts of; and translation; and Western culture, xiv. See also particular faiths
remonstrance
ren (benevolence, humaneness); and individual vs. group; vs. ritual propriety
Ren Bantang
Renaissance, Western
The Republic (Plato)
Ricci, Matteo
Richards, I. A.
Ricoeur, Paul
Rites controversy
ritual; and concept of self; in Daoism; and desire; and ghosts; vs. humaneness; and the state. See also Record of Rites
Roberts, Moss
Robertson, D. W.
Robinson, Richard
Roetz, Heiner
Roman literature
Rome
Rose, H. J.
Rosemont, Henry
Rousseau, André-M.
Roy, David
Ruan Ji
Ruan Xiu
Ruan Zhan
rulership: and Confucianism; and Daodejing; and inequality; and law; Mencius on; and modernization; transmission of
Russell, Bertrand
sacred space
sage-kings
Saigyō
Samson Agonistes (Milton)
Sandy. See Sha Wujing
Sanguo yanyi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms)
Sanjiao (Three religions). See also Buddhism; Confucianism; Daoism
Sanjiao kaimi guizheng yanyi
Sanskrit
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Satan; in Paradise Lost; in Paradise Regained
satire; in ghost stories; in Journey to the West
Saussurean linguistics
Sayers, Dorothy
Schafer, Edward
Schleiermacher, Friedrich
Schmid, Wilhelm
The Scholars (Wu Jingzi)
scholasticism
Schwartz, Benjamin
Sedulius
Segal, Charles P.
self, concept of; in Paradise Lost
self-cultivation; of emperor; in Journey to the West
Sellars, Peter
Seneca
The Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus)
sexuality
Sha Wujing (Sandy; Journey to the West)
Shakespeare, William
shamanism
Shang dynasty; religion in
Shangshu. See Classic of Documents
Shao Yong
Shaughnessy, Edward
Shawcross, John T.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shenbumie lun (On the Indestructibility of the Soul; Huiyuan)
Shenmielun (On the Destructibility of the Soul; Fan Zhen)
Shiji (Record of the Grand Historian; Sima Qian)
Shijing. See Classic of Poetry
Shiming (Explanations of Names; Liu Xi)
Shishuo xinyu (A New Account of Tales of the World; Liu Yiqing)
Shklovsky, Viktor
Shuowen jiezi (Elucidating Patterns, Explaining Graphs; Xu Shen)
si (private, selfishness) vs. gong (public). See also individual
Silk Road
Sima Guang
Sima Qian
Sinai, Mount
Singapore. See also Lee Kuan Yew
Singleton, Charles
Sivin, Nathan
Six Dynasties period
Smith, Adam
Snyder, Gary
social structure, Chinese; and family; hierarchy in; and reciprocity; and social order
socialism
Socrates; on names
Solmsen, Friedrich
Solon
Song dynasty
The Songs of the South (Chuci; trans. Hawkes)
Sophocles
Soushenji (In Search of Spirits; comp. Gan Bao)
South Korea
Spence, Jonathan
Spenser, Edmund
Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu; Confucius)
the state: and Buddhism; and Christianity; and Confucianism; and Daoism; and education; and family; and food; Greek; vs. individual; and knowledge; legitimacy of; and literature; modern; vs. the personal (si); and religion; restraints on; and ritual; and Xuanzang
Steadman, John M.
Stesichorus
Stinton, T.C.W.
The Story of the Stone (trans. Hawkes)
structuralism
Su Dongbo
Su Shi
Subodhi, Patriarch
suffering: in Chinese underworld; and knowledge; in Prometheus Bound
Summa theologica (Thomas Aquinas)
Sun Kaidi
Sun Wukong (Monkey; Journey to the West); and alchemy; and Buddhism; and Daoism; as hero; and immortality; origins of; on self-cultivation; as trickster; and Xuanzang
Sun Yat-sen
supernatural; vocabulary for. See also ghosts
The Suppliant Maidens (Aeschylus)
Sura Dasa
Suzong (Tang emperor)
Swaggart, Jimmy
Swift, Jonathan
symbolism: Christian; in comparative literature; culinary; Greek; in Journey to the West; of pilgrimage
Symposium of the Ten Virgins (Methodius)
Taiping guangji
Taiwan; Confucianism in; democracy in; dissent in
Taiwanese language
Taizong (Li Shimin; Tang emperor); and Journey to the West; in underworld; and Xuanzang
Tamil language
Tang dynasty; multiculturalism of; poetry of; prose fiction in; religion in
Tang Sanzang Xiyou shini zhuan
Tang Yongtong
Tang Zhen
Tanizaki Jun’ichirō
Tannhäuser (Wagner)
Tanwuchen
Tao Qian
Taylor, Charles
Telugu
Tertullian
Tetrachordon (Milton)
textual criticism; comparative; of poetry; and translation
Theaetetus
theodicy; and Paradise Lost; and Prometheus Bound
Theognis
Theogony (Hesiod)
Thomson, George
Thucydides
Tiananmen Square demonstrations (1989)
Tibet
Tongzhi (comp. Zheng Qiao)
tragedy
translations; of Bible; of Buddhist texts; of Chinese literature; of Daodejing; foreignizing; Indian influence on; of Journey to the West; of Mahābhārata; and otherness; of poetry; and politics; readability of; by Xuanzang
trickster figure
Trinkaus, Charles
Tu Wei-ming
Turner, Edith
Turner, Victor
Twiss, Sumner
Ulysses
Ulysses (Joyce)
underworld; bureaucracy of; journeys to; vs. life
United States (U.S.); and human rights; racism in
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Upaniṣads
upāya (skillful means)
Vālmīki
The Variety of Religious Experience (James)
Vaughn, Henry
Vedas
vengeance
Venuti, Lawrence
Veronica, Saint, veil of
Vico, Giambattista
Víga Glímssaga
Virgil
Virgil of Toulouse
Virgin Mary
Wagner, Richard
Wagner, Rudolf
Waley, Arthur
Wang, C. H.
Wang, William S.-Y.
Wang Bi
Wang Chong
Wang Danyi
Wang Fuzhi
Wang Gang
Wang Gungwu
Wang Guoguang
Wang Guowei
Wang Wei
Wang Yan
Wang Yangming (Wang Shouren)
Wang Yao
Wang Zhe
Water Margin (Shuihuzhuan; All Men Are Brothers)
Watson, Burton
Weber, Max
Wei Boyang
Wei Zheng
Weil, Simone
Weisinger, Herbert
Wendi (Han emperor)
Western culture; and China; education in; human rights in; humor in; individual in; and language; Renaissance in
Western literature: vs. Chinese literature; and Christianity; drama in; humor in; rationalism of; themes of; understanding; vernacular. See also Greek literature
Western Territories of the Great Tang (Da Tang xiyu ji; Xuanzang)
“What Is a Classic?” (Eliot)
Whichcote, Benjamin
Williams, N. P.
Williamson, George
Wodehouse, P. G.
women; as ghosts; kingdom of; in Paradise Lost. See also Eve
Woods, John E.
Woodside, Alexander
Works and Days (Hesiod)
World War II
Wriggins, Sally
Wu Cheng’en
wu wei (nonaction)
Wudi (Han emperor)
Wuliang Shrine
wu/you (nonbeing/being)
Wuzhenpian (Poetical Essay on the Primary Vitalities; Zhang Boduan)
Xiao Yu
Xiaojing. See Classic of Filial Piety
Xie Lingyun
xin. See heart/mind
Xingshi hengyan (Lasting Words to Awaken the World; comp. Feng Menglong)
Xinshuo Xiyouji (ed. Zhang Shushen)
Xiyou Zhengdao shu (Wang Danyi)
Xiyou zhenquan (comp. Chen Shibin)
Xiyouji bielun (Wang Guoguang)
Xu Fuguan
Xu Shen
Xu Xuanguai lu (A Sequel to Accounts of the Mysterious and Strange; Li Fuyan)
Xuanguai lu (Accounts of the Mysterious and Strange; Niu Sengru)
Xuanshi zhi (Records of a Palace Chamber; Zhang Du)
Xuanwu Gate Incident (626)
Xuanyan lu (Records of Manifest Retributions; Liu Yiqing)
Xuanzang (Tripitaka; Journey to the West); and Chinese state; as Gold Cicada; as historical figure; religious devotion of; salvation of; suffering of; and Sun Wukong; translations by. See also Journey to the West
Xuanzong (Tang emperor)
Xunzi (Xun Qing); concept of self in; on desire; on names; on “rights”
Yan Zhitui
Yang Weizhen
Yao Nai
Yen Fu
Yi Li (Book of Ritual). See also Record of Rites (Liji)
Yijian zhi (Records of Yijian; comp. Hong Mai)
Yijing. See Classic of Change
yin and yang
Yinshun, Master
Yiwenji (A Collection of Strange Events; comp. Chen Han)
Yogācāryabhūmi śāstra
Yong Fanggang
Youming lu (Records of the Dark and Light; Liu Yiqing)
Youzi (You Ruo)
Yu Yingshi
Yuan dynasty
Yuan Mei
Yuan Tongli
Yuan Zhen
Yuanhun ji (Accounts of Ghosts with Grievances; comp. Yan Zhitui)
Yue Fei
Zen Buddhism. See Chan (Zen) Buddhism
Zeng Shen
Zeus; tyranny of
Zhang Boduan
Zhang Boxi
Zhang Du
Zhang Shushen
Zhao Fusan
Zhao Jibin
Zhao Ye Jiaying
Zheng Qiao
Zheng Shibian
Zheng Xuan
Zheng Yue
zhiguai (records of the strange)
Zhou Cezong
Zhou Dunyi
Zhou dynasty
Zhou Li (Rites of Zhou)
Zhu Bajie (Wuneng; Pigsy; Journey to the West); and humor; origins of; salvation of
Zhu Dingchen
Zhu Xi
Zhuangzi; and Daodejing
Zhuanyi zhi (Bizarre Events Recorded; Li Mei)
Zibuyu (What the Master Disdains to Speak of; comp. Yuan Mei)
Zigong
Zilu
Zion, Mount
ziran (self-so, nature)
Zongbing
Zoroastarianism
Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan); on ghosts