18. Erica Brindley on Music and the Cosmos in Confucianism

An interview about the "resonant cosmos" in early Confucianism, and the role played by music in linking sages to the universe.

• E. Brindley, “Capturing the World in Words: Later Mohist Hermeneutic Theories on Language and Disputation,” Early China 43 (2020), 1-19.

• E. Brindley, “The Taiyi shengshui 太一生水 Cosmogony and Its Role in Early Chinese Thought,” in S. Chan (ed.), Dao Companion to the Excavated Guodian Bamboo Manuscripts 10 (2019), 153-62.

• E. Brindley,  “‘Sagacity’” and the Heaven–Human Relationship in the Wuxing 五行,” S. Chan (ed.), Dao Companion to the Excavated Guodian Bamboo Manuscripts 10 (2019), 187-96.

• E. Brindley,  “Cultural Identity and the Canonization of Music in Early China,” Monumenta Serica, 64 (2016), 255-75. 

• E. Brindley, Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c.400 BCE - 50 CE (Cambridge: 2015).

• E. Brindley, Music, Cosmology, and the Politics of Harmony in Early China (Albany: 2012).

• E. Brindley, Individualism in Early China: Human Agency and the Self in Thought and Politics (Honolulu: 2010).

• E. Brindley, “Sound Phenomena: The Cosmic Power of Sound in Late Warring States and Han Texts,” Journal of Chinese Religions 35 (2007), 1-35.

• E. Brindley, “Music and ‘Seeking One’s Heart-mind’ in the Xing Zi Ming Chu,” Dao 5 (2006), 247-55. 

• E. Brindley, “Music and Cosmos in the Development of ‘Psychology’ in Early China,” T’oung Pao 92 (2006), 1-49.