Locating Adaptive Agency
Chapter 2 identifies, locates, and disambiguates adaptive agency within the early Chinese textual horizon. It deals with three problems: (1) the notion of adapting is stable, but not always well-delimited or defined; (2) adapting is either expressed through a word cluster or articulated without an attributed term, which makes it more difficult to identify; and (3) adaptive agency must be demarcated from similar notions also pervasive in early Chinese intellectual discourses and their modern scholarly studies. Beyond expounding the philological basis of the research, the section “What Is Not Adapting” clarifies the difference between adapting, flexibility, reliance, balancing, conforming, and spontaneity.
1997 ◽
Vol 161
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pp. 491-504
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1994 ◽
Vol 144
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pp. 421-426
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1977 ◽
Vol 35
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pp. 466-467
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1978 ◽
Vol 36
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pp. 176-177
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1995 ◽
Vol 53
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pp. 616-617
1990 ◽
Vol 48
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pp. 540-541