Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Xu Gan's Theory of Naming
1	Xu Gan's Appropriation of the Name and Actuality Polarity	3
Pt. 2	The Philosophical Background
2	Confucius and the Correction of Names	35
3	Nominalist Theories of Naming in the Neo-Mohist Summa and Xun Zi	51
4	Han Fei's Xing Ming Thinking and Ming Shi	67
5	The Emergence of Correlative Theories of Naming in Guan Zi and Chun Qiu Fan Lu	85
Pt. 3	The Socio-intellectual Background
6	Ming Jiao in the Eastern Han	99
7	Word without a Message: Classical Scholarship in the Eastern Han	113
Pt. 4	The Application of Xu Gan's Theory of Naming
8	The Cosmological-cum-Ethical Implications of Name and Actuality Being in Accord or Disaccord	129
	Conclusion	145
	App. A History of the Text	153
	App. B Zhuang Zi's Scepticism about Names and Naming	160
	App. C Zheng Ming: A Legalist Interpolation?	163
	App. D An Etymological Note on the Xing Graph	166
	App. E On the Dating of the "Xin Shu Shang," "Xin Shu Xia," and "Bai Xin" Pian of Guan Zi	170
	App. F The Meaning of Ming Jiao	172
	App. G An Outline of the Old Text School-New Text School Rivalry in the Han Dynasty	179
	App. H Examples of Xu Gan's Classical Eclecticism	184
	App. I From Names and Actualities to Names and Principles	191
	Notes	195
	Bibliography	261
	Index	283