@article{755222,
      author = {Wang, Zhongjiang,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/755222},
      title = {Order in early Chinese excavated texts natural,  supernatural, and legal approaches / [electronic resource]  :},
      abstract = {"Recently discovered ancient silk and bamboo manuscripts  have transformed our understanding of classical Chinese  thought. In this book, Wang Zhongjiang closely examines  these texts, and by parsing the complex divergence between  ancient and modern Chinese records reveals early Chinese  philosophy to be much richer and more complex than we ever  imagined. As numerous and varied cosmologies sprang up in  this cradle of civilization, beliefs in the predictable  movements of nature merged with faith in gods and their  divine punishments. Slowly, powerful spirits and gods were  stripped of their potency as nature's constant order  awakened people to the possibility of universal laws, and  from those laws was finally born an ideally conceived  community, objectively managed, and rationally ordered"--},
      recid = {755222},
      pages = {1 online resource (241 pages).},
}