11. Mark Csikszentmihalyi on Early Confucianism

In this interview, we learn how Kongzi become the pivotal sage of early Chinese history, and what new discoveries teach us about the Confucian tradition.

• M. Csikszentmihalyi and P.J. Ivanhoe, Religious and Philosohical Aspects of the Laozi (Albany: 1999).

• M. Csikszentmihalyi, “Confucius and the Analects in the Han,” in B.W. Van Norden (ed.), Confucius and Analects: New Essays (Oxford: 2002), 134-62.

• M. Csikszentmihalyi, “Constructing Lineages and Inventing Traditions Through Exemplary Figures in Early China,” T’oung Pao 89 (2003), 59-99.

• M. Csikszentmihalyi, Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China (Leiden: 2004).

• M. Csikszentmihalyi, Readings in Han Chinese Thought (Indianapolis: 2006).

• M. Csikszentmihalyi, “The Haihunhou Capsule Biographies of Kongzi and His Disciples,” Journal of Chinese Religions 42 (2014), 343-73.

• T. Hyun Kim and M. Csikszentmihalyi, “History and Formation of the Analects,” in A. Olberding (ed.), Dao Companion to the Analects (Dordrecht: 2014), 21-36.

• M. Csikszentmihalyi, “Echoes of the Classics in the Voice of Confucius,” in K. Seigneurie (ed.), Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Literature (London: 2020), 1-12.

• M. Csikszentmihalyi, “Interlocutor Collections, the Lunyu 論語, and Proto-Lunyu Texts,” in M. Hunter and M. Kern, Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship (Leiden: 2018), 175-92.

• M. Csikszentmihalyi and M. Nylan (eds), Technical Arts in the Han Histories: Tables and Treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu (Albany: 2022).