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• Foreword: Translator's Introduction
• Chapter 1. Re-evaluating Confucius
• Chapter 2. A Preliminary Exploration of the Mohists
• Chapter 3. Sunzi, Laozi and Han Fei
• Chapter 4. Key Features of the Xunzi, Yizhuan and the Doctrine of the Mean
• Chapter 5. Qin and Han Dynasty Thought
• Chapter 6. Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism
• Chapter 7. Some Thoughts on Neo-Confucianism
• Chapter 8. Engagement in Practical Affairs and Statecraft
• Chapter 9. Some Thoughts on Chinese Wisdom
• Afterword.
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Li Zehou is widely regarded as one of China's most influential contemporary thinkers. He has produced influential theories of the development of Chinese thought and the place of aesthetics in Chinese ethics and value theory. This book is the first English-language translation of Li Zehou's work on classical Chinese thought. It includes chapters on the classical Chinese thinkers, including Confucius, Mozi, Laozi, Sunzi, Xunzi and Zhuangzi, and also on later eras and thinkers such as Dong Zhongshu in the Han Dynasty and the Song-Ming Neo-Confucians. The essays in this book not only discuss these historical figures and their ideas, but also consider their historical significance, and how key themes from these early schools reappeared in and shaped later periods and thinkers. Taken together, they highlight the breadth of Li Zehou's scholarship and his syncretic approach-his explanations of prominent thinkers and key periods in Chinese intellectual history blend ideas from both the Chinese and Western canons, while also drawing on contemporary thinkers in both traditions. The book also includes an introduction written by the translator that helpfully explains the significance of Li Zehou's work and its prospects for fostering cross-cultural dialogue with Western philosophy. A History of Chinese Classical Thought will be of interest to advanced students and scholars interested in Chinese philosophy, comparative philosophy, and Chinese intellectual and social history.
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• The age of complacency
• The age of philosophy
• On relationships: Confucius, and as-if ritual
• On decisions: Mencius, and the capricious world
• On influence: Laozi, and generating worlds
• On vitality: the inward training, and being like a spirit
• On spontaneity: Zhuangzi, and the world of transformation
• On humanity: Xunzi, and putting pattern on the world
• The age of possibility.

• Introduction: Chinese Intellectual History Writing Brief Prologue: The History of Chinese Intellectual History Itself Part One: The History of General Knowledge, Thought and Belief Part Two: Between the History of Knowledge and the History of Thought Part Three: the Foundational Presupposition of Chinese Thought: "Dao" or the "Way of Heaven" Part Four: The Continuity of Intellectual History Emerges Part Five: Historical Memory, Intellectual Resources and Reinterpretation Part Six: Pictures Where There Are No Pictures: How to Deal With Empty Spaces in Intellectual History Part Seven: Addition and Subtraction Methods in Intellectual History Research Part Eight: What Can Be A Resource Material for Intellectual History? Chapter One: Tracing the Origins of Chinese Intellectual History in the Three Dynasties (Ancient Times to ca. 6th Century BCE) Brief Prologue: Remote Antiquity Part One: Reconstructing the World of Ancient Thought: Traditional Written Documents, Modern Theory, and Archeological Discoveries Part Two: The Shang Conceptual System as Recorded in the Oracle Bone Inscriptions Part Three: Evolution of Thought as Recorded in the Written Documents and Bronze Inscriptions of the Western Zhou Part Four: Chinese Script and Chinese Intellectual History Part Five: Ceremonies, Symbols and A Numerological World Order as the Background of Later Intellectual History Chapter Two: Hundred Schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, I (ca. 6th to 3rd Century BCE) Brief Prologue: China's "Axial Age" Part One: General Knowledge and Thought in the Spring and Autumn Period Part Two: Continuation and Renewal of the Intellectual Tradition I: Ru or the Confucians Part Three: Continuation and Renewal of the Intellectual Tradition II: Mo or the Moists Part Four: Continuation and Renewal of the Intellectual Tradition III: Dao or the Daoists Part Five: Elite Thought and General Knowledge: Implications of Mantic and Medical Arts in Intellectual History Chapter Three: Hundred Schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, II (ca. 6th to 3rd Century BCE) Part One: Warring States Hundred Schools Contend, I: Cosmic Space and Time Part Two: Warring States Hundred Schools Contend, II: Social Order Part Three: Warring States Hundred Schools Contend, III: Life of the Individual Part Four: Language and Reality: the Warring States Period Disputations on Names Chapter Four: Intellectual Convergence in the Qin and Han Dynasties, from ca. the 3rd Century BCE to ca. the Mid-2nd Century CE Prologue: Coda to the "Hundred Schools of Thought Contending" Part One: General Knowledge Background and Intellectual Achievement in the Qin and Han dynasties Part Two: Toward A Synthesis of Knowledge and Philosophy: from the Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals to the Huainanzi Part Three: Establishment of A State Ideology: from the Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals to the Discourses in the White Tiger Hall Part Four: Classics and Apocrypha: the Consequences of Mutual Interaction between General Knowledge and Elite Thought Chapter Five: Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism from the End of the Eastern Han to the Early Tang Dynasty, I (ca. Mid-2nd to Mid-7th Centuries) Prologue: Foreign Influence Enters China Part One: Evolution of Autochthonous Chinese Thought and Learning from Han to Jin Part Two: The Mysterious and Profound: A Turning Point of Intellectual History in the Third Century CE Part Three: Purification of Daoist Teachings: the Religionization of Daoist Thought, Knowledge and Techniques Chapter Six: Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism from the Eastern Han to the Tang Dynasty II Part One: the Transmission of Buddhism to China and Its Significance in Intellectual History, I Part Two: the Transmission of Buddhism to China and Its Significance in Intellectual History, II Part Three: Buddhist Conquest of China? Part Four: Basic Outline of the Mainstream World of Knowledge and Thought in the Seventh Century Bibliography.
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• Chronology of Chinese States and Dynasties Abbreviations Used in Footnotes and Bibliography Note on Translation Author and Translators Series Editors' Foreword 7 Tang Dynasty Thought I: from Unity to Intellectual Crisis (ca. Mid-7th to Mid-10th Centuries CE) Prologue: Power, Education and the Intellectual World 1 Mediocrity in a Flourishing Age: Knowledge and Thought in the First Half of the 8th Century 2 The 8th- to 10th-Century Transformation of Buddhism I: The Decline of Theoretical Interest 3 The 8th- to 10th-Century Transformation of Buddhism II: The Victory of Chan Buddhism and the Defeat of Buddhism 8 Tang Dynasty Thought II: From Unity to Intellectual Crisis (ca. Mid-7th to Mid-10th Centuries CE) 1 The 8th- to 10th-Century Transformation of Buddhism III: Language and Meaning 2 Re-establishing National Authority and Intellectual Order: A New Understanding of Intellectual History Between the 8th and 9th Centuries 3 Anti-Buddhist Persecution of the 840s and 9th-Century Daoist Religion 9 From Song to Ming: The Establishment of a New Tradition, I (Mid-10th Century to the End of the 16th Century) Prologue: China Before the Birth of the Neo-Confucian School of Principle 1 Luoyang and Kaifeng (Bianliang): Separation of the Political and Cultural Centers 2 Continuation of Neo-Confucianism: The Zhu Xi-Lu Xiangshan Debates and Their Surroundings 10 From Song to Ming: Establishing a New Tradition II 1 State and Scholars Support the Expansion of Culture and Establish the Uniformity of Ethics in Everyday Life in the Song Dynasty 2 From Yuan to Ming: The General Condition of the World of Knowledge, Thought and Belief 3 Making Waves Again: The Rise and Significance of the Learning of Wang Yangming 11 From Ming to Qing I: From Tianxia, "All under Heaven, " to the "Ten Thousand States" (End of the 16th to the End of the 19th Centuries) Prologue: From "All under Heaven" to an "Age of Ten Thousand States": Background to the Reinterpretation of Ming and Qing Intellectual History 1 Collapse of Heaven and Earth I: The Ancient Chinese Cosmic Order Encounters Western Astronomy 2 Collapse of Heaven and Earth II: "All under Heaven, " "China, " and the "Four Barbarians" as Depicted in Ancient Chinese Maps of the World 3 The Rise of Textual Criticism and Evidential Research and the Chinese Intellectual World from the Mid-17th to the Late 18th Centuries 12 From Ming to Qing II: Chinese Intellectual World in the 18th and 19th Centuries 1 Attempting to Rebuild the Intellectual World: The Turn of the 18th- and 19th-Century Evidential Research 2 Influx of New Western Knowledge and Changes in the Chinese Intellectual World in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 3 The Late Qing Rediscovery and Reinterpretation of Traditional Chinese Resources: Classical Learning, Study of the Ancient Schools of Philosophers and Buddhism Epilogue: China in
• 1895: The Symbolic Significance of Intellectual History Bibliography Index.
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Winner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In An Intellectual History of China, Professor Ge Zhaoguang presents a history of traditional Chinese knowledge, thought and belief to the late six century CE with a new approach offering a new perspective. It appropriates a wide range of source materials and emphasizes the necessity of understanding ideas and thought in their proper historical contexts. Its analytical narrative focuses on the dialectical interaction between historical background and intellectual thought. While discussing the complex dynamics of interaction among the intellectual thought of elite Chinese scholars, their historical conditions, their canonical texts and the "worlds of general knowledge, thought and belief, " it also illuminates the significance of key issues such as the formation of the Chinese world order and its underlying value system, the origins of Chinese cultural identity and foreign influences.
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A history of traditional Chinese knowledge, thought and belief from the seventh through the nineteenth centuries with a new approach that offers a new perspective. It appropriates a wide range of source materials and emphasizes the necessity of understanding ideas and thought in their proper historical contexts. Its analytical narrative focuses on the dialectical interaction between historical background and intellectual thought. While discussing the complex dynamics of interaction among the intellectual thought of elite Chinese scholars, their historical conditions, their canonical texts and the "worlds of general knowledge, thought and belief, " it also illuminates the significance of key issues such as the formation of the Chinese world order and its underlying value system, the origins of Chinese cultural identity, foreign influences, and the collapse of the Chinese world order in the 19th century leading toward the revolutionary events of the 20th century.
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• Introduction: what is Chinese philosophy?
• 1. Zhouyi: the starting point of Chinese philosophy
• 2. Chinese political philosophy: pre-Qin philosophers
• 3. Chinese metaphysics: interpretations of the world from Han to Tang dynasties
• 4. Chinese epistemology: Song-Ming philosophers on the relationship between mind-heart and things-events
• 5. The Dao of Chinese philosophy
• 6. Modern Chinese philosophy: New Confucianism and East-West comparative philosophy
• Appendix I. Table of key philosophical terms
• Appendix II. Timeline of Chinese and Western philosophies
• Appendix III. Chronological table of the Chinese dynasties.
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In this illustrated introduction Wen Haiming explores the characteristics of different philosophers in Chinese history and distinguishes the 'Chinese philosophical sensibility' motivating their thoughts. Employing Western philosophical categories to describe significant issues in the history of philosophy, Wen Haiming considers Chinese political philosophy in the pre-Qin era, Chinese metaphysics from Han to Tang dynasties, Chinese epistemology from Song to Ming dynasties and modern Chinese-Western comparative philosophy. Chinese Philosophy provides a clear, accessible conception of the Chinese philosophical sensibility and its evolution throughout history.
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• Preface Contributors Methodological Issues Concerning Chinese Philosophy: A Theme Introduction Bo Mou
• Part 1: Identity of Chinese Philosophy 1. Emergence of the History of Chinese Philosophy Antonio S. Cua
• Part 2. Classical Chinese Philosophy (I): Pre-Han Period 2. The Yi-Jing and the Yin-Yang Ways of Thinking Chung-ying Cheng 3. Classical Confucianism (1): Confucius and the Lun-Yu Edward Slingerland 4. The Mohist School Christopher J. Fraser 5. School of Names Yiu-ming Fung 6. Classical Confucianism (2): Meng Zi and Xun Zi Kim-chong Chong 7. Daoism (1): Lao Zi and the Dao-De-Jing Xiaogan Liu 8. Daoism (2): Zhuang Zi and the Zhuang-Zi Vincent Shen
• Part 3: Classical Chinese Philosophy (II): From Han Through Tang 9. Han Thought Yiu-ming Fung 10. Neo-Daoism Alan K. L. Chan 11. Chinese Buddhism Whalen Lai
• Part 4: Classical Chinese Philosophy (III): From Song Through Early Qing 12. Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism (1): From Cheng Yi to Zhu Xi Shu-hsien Liu 13. Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism (2): From Lu Jiuyuan to Wang Yang-ming Shu-hsien Liu 14. Philosophical Development in Late Ming and Early Qing Chung-yi Cheng
• Part 5: Modern Chinese Philosophy: From Late Qing Through 21th Century 15. Enlightenment Movement: Introducing Western Thoughts and Early Engagement Attempts Xinyan Jiang 16. Development of Dialectical Materialism in China Chenshan Tian 17. Modern Neo-Confucian Movement Sor-hoon Tan 18. Constructive Engagement of Chinese and Western Philosophy: A Contemporary Trend Towards World Philosophy Bo Mou Appendixes Chronology of Philosophers Note on Transcription Index.
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The History of Chinese Philosophy is a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the movements and thinkers that have shaped Chinese philosophy over the last three thousand years. An outstanding team of international contributors provide seventeen accessible entries organised into five clear parts: Identity of Chinese Philosophy Classical Chinese Philosophy (I): Pre-Han Period Classical Chinese Philosophy (II): From Han Through Tang Classical Chinese Philosophy (III): From Song Through Early Qing Modern Chinese Philosophy: From Late Qing Through 21st Century This outstanding collection is essential reading for students of Chinese philosophy, and will be of interest to those seeking to explore the lasting significance this rich and complex philosophical tradition.
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