Books by Paul R. Goldin

This title addresses central issues in the history of chinese attitudes towards sex and gender from 500BC to AD 400. It reveals the use of the image of copulation as a metaphor for various human relations in some of the most revered and influential texts in the Chinese tradition.

Presents the history and salient tenets of Confucian thought, and discusses its viability, from both a social and a philosophical point of view, in the modern world. This book guides readers through the philosophies of the three major classical Confucians: Confucius (551-479 BCE), Mencius (372-289 BCE), and Xunzi (floruit 3rd century BCE).