Amy Olberding is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. Philip J. Ivanhoe is Reader-Professor of Philosophy at the City University of Hong Kong. His many books include Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi (coedited with Mark Csikszentmihalyi) and Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi (coedited with Paul Kjellberg), both also published by SUNY Press.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. Preparation for the Afterlife in Ancient China
Mu-chou Poo
2. Ascend to Heaven or Stay in the Tomb? Paintings in Mawangdui Tomb 1 and the Virtual Ritual of Revival in Second-Century B.C.E. China
Eugene Yuejin Wang
3. Concepts of Death and the Afterlife Refl ected in Newly Discovered Tomb Objects and Texts from Han China
Jue Guo
4. War, Death, and Ancient Chinese Cosmology: Thinking through the Thickness of Culture
Roger T. Ames
5. Death and Dying in the Analects
Philip J. Ivanhoe
6. I Know Not "Seems": Grief for Parents in the Analects
Amy Olberding
7. Allotment and Death in Early China
Mark Csikszentmihalyi
8. Death in the Zhuangzi: Mind, Nature, and the Art of Forgetting
Mark Berkson
9. Sages, the Past, and the Dead: Death in the Huainanzi
Michael Puett
10. Linji and William James on Mortality: Two Visions of Pragmatism
Tao Jiang
11. Death as the Ultimate Concern in Neo-Confucian Tradition: Wang Yangming's Followers as an Example
Guoxiang Peng
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX