This collection of twenty-one articles represents some of the major writings by one of the United States' leading Sinologists, Derk Bodde. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton Universi

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Preface, pg. vii*Chronology of Chinese Dynasties, pg. xi*Foreword, pg. xiii*Introduction: The Essays Reassessed, pg. 1*1. Introduction to the History of China, pg. 39*2. The Chinese Language as a Factor in Chinese Cultural Continuity (1942), pg. 43*3. Myths of Ancient China (1961), pg. 45*4. Feudalism in China (1956), pg. 85*5. Dominant Ideas in the Formation of Chinese Culture (1942), pg. 132*6. Types of Chinese Categorical Thinking (1939), pg. 141*7. Authority and Law in Ancient China (1954), pg. 161*8. Basic Concepts of Chinese Law: the Genesis and Evolution of Legal Thought in Traditional China (1963), pg. 171*9. Prison Life in Eighteenth Century Peking (1969), pg. 195*10. Henry A. Wallace and the Ever-normal Granary (1946), pg. 218*11. Harmony and Conflict in Chinese Philosophy (1953), pg. 237*12. Chinese "Laws of Nature": a Reconsideration (1979), pg. 299*13. The Chinese View of Immortality: Its Expression by Chu Hsi and Its Relationship to Buddhist Thought (1942), pg. 316*14. Some Chinese Tales of the Supernatural: Kan Pao and His Sou-shen chi (1942), pg. 331*15. The Chinese Cosmic Magic Known as Watching for the Ethers(1959), pg. 351*16. Sexual Sympathetic Magic in Han China (1964), pg. 373*17. A Perplexing Passage in the Confucian Analects (1933), pg. 383*18. Two New Translations of Lao Tzu (1954), pg. 388*19. On Translating Chinese Philosophic Terms (1955), pg. 395*20. Lieh-tzu and the Doves: a Problem of Dating (1959), pg. 409*21. Marshes in Mencius and Elsewhere: a Lexicographical Note (1978), pg. 416*Bibliography of Derk Bodde, pg. 427*Index, pg. 439