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FEATURE REVIEW Ambiguity, Wholeness, and Irony: A New Interpretation of Chinese Metaphysics Soochow University marchal@scu.edu.tw Ironies of Oneness and Difference: Coherence in Early Chinese Thought: Prole gomena to the Study of Li . By Brook Ziporyn. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. Pp. ix + 323. Hardcover $85.00, isbn 978-1-43-844289-1. Paper $26.95, isbn 978-1-43-844288-4. Beyond Oneness and Difference: Li and Coherence in Chinese Buddhist Thought and Its Antecedents. By Brook Ziporyn. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2013. Pp. xviii + 413. Hardcover $95.00, isbn 978-1-43-844817-6. Paper $27.95, isbn 978-1-43-844818-3. Let me begin with a personal observation. It takes some courage to write a review of Brook Ziporyn's new publications. The two tomes, Ironies of Oneness and Difference and Beyond Oneness and Difference, center on the history of one particular notion, li , which, according to Ziporyn, denotes "something interestingly strange" (Beyond, p. 314). The sheer size of these two densely printed volumes (more than seven hundred pages in total) and their enormous scope (from Classical Chinese thought through to Neo-Confucianism) make any attempt to understand and to evaluate Ziporyn's contribution a daunting task. Therefore, I will confine myself to an overview of the major
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