Polity Press, 2017. — ISBN: 978-0-7456-6248-0. Neo-Confucianism is a philosophically sophisticated tradition weaving classical Confucianism together with themes from Buddhism and Daoism. It began in China around the eleventh century CE, played a leading role in East Asian cultures over the last millennium, and has had a profound influence on modern Chinese society. Based on the...
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. — 254 p. What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In this entertaining and illuminating book, one of the few...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. — 249 p. — (Philosophy A–Z Series). — ISBN: 978-0-7486-3712-6, 978-0-7486-2241-2. The main objective of this book is to provide a concise, alphabetical guide to the main concepts, issues, topics, figures, and important movements of thought that have shaped Chinese philosophy over the last 3,000 years.
London, New York: Routledge, 2009. – 631 p. The main objective of this volume is to provide a reference book that gives a systematic, comprehensive, and up-to-date examination of the major and most important movements of thought that have shaped Chinese philosophy over the past 3000 years.
Cambridge, London: Harvard University Press, 2008. — 366 p. — (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 307). — ISBN: 978-0-674-03106-7. Neo-Confucianism is a kind of Confucianism, but one that claims to be rediscovering what Confucius and Mencius really meant and that often speaks through its interpretations of the ancient texts. Zhu Xi, its Confucius, wrote too much than too little,...
Princeton University Press, 1969. — 874 p. A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy is a milestone along the complex and difficult road to significant understanding by Westerners of the Asian peoples and a monumental contribution to the cause of philosophy. It is the first anthology of Chinese philosophy to cover its entire historical development. It provides substantial selections...
Blackwell Publishers, 2002. - 446 p. 063121724X Contemporary Chinese Philosophy features discussion of sixteen major twentieth-century Chinese philosophers. Leading scholars in the field describe and critically assess the works of these significant figures. Critically assesses the work of major comtemporary Chinese philosophers that have rarely been discussed in English....
ISBN: 9780062316592. November 2014. EPUB From the author of the acclaimed Mr. China comes another rollicking adventure story — part memoir, part history, part business imbroglio — that offers valuable lessons to help Westerners win in China. In the twenty-first century, the world has tilted eastwards in its orbit; China grows confident while the West seems mired in doubt....
Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. — 206 p. The essays included in this volume present a variety of experiences in teaching the Daode Jing, a text being taught by an increasing number of scholars in many fields in the humanities.
London; New York: Springer, 2011. — 265 p. This volume presents intellectual reflections on the renaissance of Confucianism in contemporary China. The essays show the vibrant and already well articulated discussions that have emerged regarding how to re-appreciate Confucian moral and political thought for the 21st century.
London, New York: Springer, 2010. — 296 p. The term Reconstructionist Confucianism identifies the project of reclaiming and articulating moral resources from the Confucian tradition so as to meet contemporary moral and public policy changes. This term is chosen to indicate a view reconstructed from Confucian cultural resources that have been put in disarray by a number of...
İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2009. — 498 s. Çin’de felsefe tarihi binlerce yıl öncesine uzanır fakat Çin’in batısındaki coğrafyada Çin Felsefesi bilgisi ancak birkaç filozofun adıyla sınırlıdır. Fung Yu-Lan’ın eseri, Çin Felsefesinin tarihini ayrıntılı olarak ele alan ilk eserdir. Batı felsefesini de yakından tanıyan Yu-Lan, Çin felsefesinde farklı düşünce akımlarını...
Oxford University Press, UK, USA, 2014. — 86 p. — (Very Short Introductions) — ISBN: 0195398912. To understand China, it is essential to understand Confucianism. First formulated in the sixth century BCE, the teachings of Confucius would come to dominate Chinese society, politics, economics, and ethics. In this Very Short Introduction, Daniel K. Gardner explores the major...
New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. — 183 p. Taoism is the greatest philosophical tradition of China after Confucianism. From its first maturity in the 3rd century B. C. we find references to a certain Lieh-tzu, who traveled by riding the wind. His historicity is doubtful, and it is not even clear when he is supposed to have lived; some indications point to 600, others...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. — 198 p. Guodian is the name of a village in the central province of Hubei China. In the early 1990s, grave robbers looted a tomb there that had gone undetected for over two millennia. They left behind what they thought as a worthless pile of bamboo strips. In fact, these strips were a fantastic collection of manuscripts dating from around...
New York, London: Seven Bridges Press, 2001. — 362 p. Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy introduces the seven most widely read and important thinkers of the "classical period" (roughly the sixth to the end of the third century B. C. E.) of Chinese philosophy. Each chapter begins with a very brief introduction to the text and lightly annotated, selective bibliography....
New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. — 944 p. The Mozi is unquestionably one of the most important books in the history of Chinese philosophy. It embodied the first, and at least in the pre-Han period, the most serious challenge to the increasing dominance of Confucianism. It did this by presenting a coherent body of doctrine articulated in a strikingly systematic way.
New York, London: Routledge, 2004. — 283 p. Taoism: The Enduring Tradition offers fresh perspectives on a religious and cultural tradition which has unfolded since the fifth century as a form of integration into the unseen realities of life. Exploring Taoist voices in sacred texts and current scholarship, and showing how Taoism differs from, and overlaps with, other Chinese...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. — 847 p. The Lushi Chunqiu is a work of unique importance in Chinese thought. The title literally means the "Spring and Autumn of Mr. Lu". "Spring and Autumn" derives from the name of the chronicle of the state of Lu that Confucius was generally thought to have written or compiled to express his judgements of history.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. - 847 p. 600dpi (text layer, interactive table of contents) The Lushi Chunqiu is a work of unique importance in Chinese thought. The title literally means the "Spring and Autumn of Mr. Lu". "Spring and Autumn" derives from the name of the chronicle of the state of Lu that Confucius was generally thought to have written or compiled to...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 323 p. This comprehensive introduction to early Chinese philosophy covers a range of philosophical traditions which arose during the Spring and Autumn (722–476 BCE) and Warring States (475–221 BCE) periods in China, including Confucianism, Mohism, Daoism and Legalism. It considers concepts, themes and argumentative methods of early...
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2000. — 288 p. Analects of Confucius, is a collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been compiled and written by Confucius' followers.
Taipei: SMC Publishing INC, 1991. — 503 p. James Legge, a Christian missionary, had undertaken the stupendous task of translating into English, the classics of a non-Christian civilization and people. There have been very few men in any generation who would have had the courage to embark on a task of such magnitude; there have been still fewer scholastically equipped even to...
New York: State University of New York Press. 2006. — 200 p. This project was first inspired by comments made regarding the viability of Confucianism to rectify itself to meet the problem of gender disparity without the import of Western ethical theories during the East and West Conference held at the University of Hawaii in 1998.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. — 988 p. This book is the first complete English translation of the Huainanzi, a work from the early Han dynasty that is of fundamental importance to the intellectual history of early China. With this translation, we hope to acquaint specialists and general readers alike, to a degree that heretofore was not possible, with the...
Translations from the Asian classics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. — 988 p. This book is the first complete English translation of the Huainanzi, a work from the early Han dynasty that is of fundamental importance to the intellectual history of early China. With this translation, we hope to acquaint specialists and general readers alike, to a degree that...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 262 p. The purpose of this book is to examine critically the notion of Neo-Confucianism as a philosophical school and to introduce the thought of some of its representative thinkers.
Bravo Ltd, 2009. — 276 p. — ISBN: 978-1-85733-642-9 The Earliest Traces The Yijing Daosism The Teaching of Zhuangzi Confucius Mozi, the First Opponent of Confucius Mencius, Exponent of Confucius Ideas Xunzi, Critic of Mencius The School of Names Legalism The Rise and Fall of the Empire of Qin Buddhism in China The Neo — Confucian Synthesis From Tang to Qing The End of Confucian...
New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2001. — 402 p. The Five Classics associated with Confucius formed the core curriculum in the education of Chinese literati throughout most of the imperial period. In this book Michael Nylan offers a sweeping assessment of these ancient texts and shows how their influence spread across East Asia. Nylan begins by tracing the formation of...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. — ISBN: 962-209-785-5. This book explores the life and work of Ruan Yuan (1764–1849), a scholar-official of renown in mid-Qing China prior to the Opium War, before traditional institutions and values became altered by incursions from the West. His distinction as an official, scholar, and patron of learning has been recognized by both...
2 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985, 1998 - 484 + 578 p. 600dpi (text layer, interactive table of contents) The Guanzi 管子 [Book of Master Guan]，which bears the name of a famous seventh-century b.C- minister of the state of Qi 齊，Guan Zhong 管仲（685-645 B.c.），has been described by Gustav Haloun (1898-1951), Czech sinologist, as an “amorphous and vast repository of...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. — 484 p. The Guanzi (Book of Master Guan), which bears the name of a famous seventh century b.c minister of the state of qi Guan Zhong (d. 645 b.c.) is certainly one of the largest of the pre-Han or early Han politico-philosophical works, exceeding 135,000 characters in length and containing material written by a number of anonymous...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. — 578 p. The Guanzi (Book of Master Guan), which bears the name of a famous seventh century b.c minister of the state of qi Guan Zhong (d. 645 b.c.) is certainly one of the largest of the pre-Han or early Han politico-philosophical works, exceeding 135,000 characters in length and containing material written by a number of anonymous...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. — 183 p. Hsieh Liang-Tso (c. 1050-c. 1120), master Shang-ts’ai, was one of the leading disciples of Ch’eng Hao (1032-1085) and his younger brother Ch’eng I (1033-1107). Together, they were central figures in Tao-hsueh or Neo-Confucian Movement. Concentrating on Hsieh and his interpretation of the Confucian Analects, the main theme of this...
New York: Basic Books; Hachette Book Group, 2019. — 512 p. — ISBN: 9781541618459 (ebook). A brilliant history of ancient China's masters of philosophy - and how they help us understand China today. In Ways of Heaven, leading China scholar Roel Sterckx offers an engrossing introduction to classical China's world of ideas. Drawing on evocative examples from philosophical texts,...
2016 Bloomsbury Academic — 375 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4725-032-0 "An exemplary resource... The advice about translations is excellent, as are the pedagogical lessons and the comparative opportunities. This is an indispensable guide for researchers, and it would make a fantastic text for a graduate course. Summing Up: Essential. " CHOICE The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese...
Springer, 2018. — 362 p. — ISBN10: 9811090467, ISBN13: 978-9811090462. This book identifies that "Xiang thinking" is the eidetic connotation and a fundamental trait of traditional Chinese thinking, offering insights of considerable methodological significance. "Xiang thinking" is a mode of thinking different from conceptual thinking or idealized rational thinking and, in a...
Springer, 2018. — 386 p. — ISBN10: 9811090467, ISBN13: 978-9811090462. This book identifies that "Xiang thinking" is the eidetic connotation and a fundamental trait of traditional Chinese thinking, offering insights of considerable methodological significance. "Xiang thinking" is a mode of thinking different from conceptual thinking or idealized rational thinking and, in a...
Columbia University Press, 2013. — 294 p. — (Translations from the Asian Classics). — ISBN10: 0231164742. — ISBN13: 978-0231164740. Only by inhabiting Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. This is Daoist philosophy's central tenet, espoused by the person - or group of people - known as...
Knoblock, John, trans. — Stanford: Stanford University Press. — 3 vols. (1988, 1990, 1994). — 1167 p. Translator: To present Xunzi in a fashion that is easily understood and provides all the material necessary to grasp his argument, I have provided a general introduction with chapters devoted to: (i) the biography of Xunzi set in the history of his times, particularly as it...
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