Sarah Queen, Professor, Connecticut College, is the author of From Chronicle to Canon as well as the the co-translator of The Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumnn and The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government.Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University. He is the co-author, most recently, of Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity, with Robert Weller, Adam Seligman, and Bennet Simon.

• AcknowledgementsForewordAbout the ContributorsIntroduction - Sarah A. Queen and Michael PuettPART ONE AUTHORSHIP AND TEXTUAL FORMATION:1. Root-Branches Structuralism in the Huainanzi - Andrew Meyer2. Daoist Inner Cultivation Thought and the Textual Structure of the Huainanzi - Harold D. Roth3. Representations of Confucius in the Huainanzi - Sarah A. Queen4. Creating a Book and Performing it: The “Yao Lüe” Chapter of the Huainanzi as a Western Han Fu - Martin KernPART TWO KNOWLEDGE AND RHETORIC:5. Tool Metaphors in the Huainanzi and Other Early Texts - John S. Major6. The Huainanzi’s “Heavenly Patterns” and the Shiji’s “Treatise on the Celestial Offices”: What’s the Difference? - David W. Pankenier7. A Note on Logical Connectives in the Huainanzi - Michael NylanPART THREE AUDIENCE AND RECEPTION:8. Sages, Creation, and the End of History in the Huainanzi - Michael Puett9. The Liu Clan’s ‘Flesh and Bone’: The Foundation of Liu An’s Vision of Empire - Judson B. Murray10. The Discourse about Lords (Zhuhou) in the Huainanzi - Griet Vankeerberghen11. Breaking through Heaven’s Glass Ceiling: The Significance of the Commoner Woman of Qi in the “Lan Ming” Chapter of the Huananzi - Anne Behnke KinneyReferencesIndex of Terms