Publications

2005
Puett M. “Following the Commands of Heaven: The Notion of Ming in Early China”. In: Lupke C The Magnitude of Ming: Command, Allotment, and Fate in Chinese Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press ; 2005. pp. 49-69. puett_following_the_commands_of_heaven.pdf
Puett M. "Bones". In: Jones L Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: MacMillan Reference Books ; 2005. pp. 1013-1016. puett_bones.pdf
Puett M. “The Offering of Food and the Creation of Order: The Practice of Sacrifice in Early China”. In: Sterckx R Of Tripod and Palate: Food, Politics, and Religion in Traditional China. New York: Palgrave MacMillan ; 2005. pp. 75-95. puett_offering_of_food.pdf
Puett M. “Listening to Sages: Divination, Omens, and the Rhetoric of Antiquity in Wang Chong’s Lunheng". Oriens Extremus . 2005;45 :271-281. puett_listening_to_sages.pdf
2004
Puett M. “The Ethics of Responding Properly: The Notion of Qing in Early Chinese Thought”. In: Eifring H Love and Emotions in Traditional Chinese Literature. Leiden: Brill ; 2004. pp. 37-68. puett_qing.pdf
Puett M. “Forming Spirits for the Way: The Cosmology of the Xiang’er Commentary to the Laozi”. Journal of Chinese Religions . 2004;32 :1-27. puett_forming_spirits.pdf
2002
Puett M. “Humans and Gods: The Theme of Self-Divinization in Early China and Early Greece”. In: Durrant S, Shankman S Thinking Through Comparisons: Ancient China and Ancient Greece. Albany: State University of New York Press ; 2002. pp. 55-74. puett_humans_and_gods.pdf
Puett M. "Descendants of the One". In: To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center ; 2002. pp. 145-200. puett_descendants_of_the_one.pdf
Puett M. "Gaining the Powers of Spirits". In: To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center ; 2002. pp. 80-121. puett_gaining_the_powers_of_spirits.pdf
Puett M. "Anthropomorphizing the Spirits". In: To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center ; 2002. pp. 31-79. puett_anthropomorphizing_the_spirits.pdf
Puett M. Conclusion. In: To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center ; 2002. pp. 317-323. puett_conclusion_to_become_a_god.pdf
Puett M. "Introduction". In: To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center ; 2002. pp. 1-29. puett_introduction_to_become_a_god.pdf
2001
Puett M. "Creation of Empire". In: The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China. Stanford: Stanford University Press ; 2001. pp. 141-176. puett_creation_of_empire.pdf
Puett M. “Philosophy and Literature in Early China”. In: Mair V The Columbia History of Chinese Literature. New York: Columbia University Press ; 2001. pp. 70-85. puett_philosophy_and_literature.pdf
Puett M. Conclusion. In: The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China. Stanford: Stanford University Press ; 2001. pp. 213-214. puett_conclusion_ambivalence_of_creation.pdf
Puett M. Introduction. In: The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China. Stanford: Stanford University Press ; 2001. pp. 1-21. puett_introduction_ambivalence_of_creation.pdf
Puett M. "Tragedy of Creation". In: The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China. Stanford: Stanford University Press ; 2001. pp. 177-212. puett_tragedy_of_creation.pdf
2000
Puett M. “Violent Misreadings: The Hermeneutics of Cosmology in the Huainanzi”. Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. 2000;72 :29-47. puett_violent_misreadings.pdf
1998
Puett M. “China in Early Eurasian History: A Brief Review of Recent Scholarship on the Issue”. In: Mair V Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia. Vol. 2. Washington D.C. Institute for the Study of Man ; 1998. puett_china_in_early_eurasian_history.pdf

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