Project for Calligraphy and Manuscript Culture
Presents CCMC Workshop 2
The Hengxian 恒先 Manuscript:
“Ante-Eternity” in the Warring States China
Led by Profs. Chen Jing and Xing Wen
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM, 14 May 2014
105A Bartlett Hall, Dartmouth College
Free Registration:
Wen.Xing@Dartmouth.EDU (by midnight 13 May 2014)
Image of the 4th century BCE bamboo-slip manuscript Hengxian
(Ma Chengyuan, ed., Shanghai bowuguan cang Zhanguo Chu zhushu [san]. Shanghai: Shanghai guji, 2003, p. 9):
The first English article and translation of the Hengxian by Chen Jing, “Interpretation of Hengxian: An Explanation from a Point of View of Intellectual History.” Frontiers of Philosophy in China Vol. 3, No. 3 (2008), 366-388:
Xing Wen’s transcription and reconstruction (in Chinese): “The Chu Bamboo-slip Hengxian: A Reconstructed Transcription with Section Division.” History of Chinese Philosophy 2010.2 (May 2010), 51-56.
Selected further reading (in Chinese): Xing Wen, “The Chu Bamboo-slip Hengxian and the ‘Eight-Couplet Essay.'” Guangming Daily 1 March 2010, page 12.