Chinese Intellectual History: Confucianism

Chinese Intellectual History: Confucianism

I History of Confucianism: chronologies & periodization

Questions: What's in a name?; Confucianism or Confucianisms?

II. Confucius/K'ung Fu-tzu

The Analects, Books I-IV, VII, XIV-XV

"Confucius," in The Book of Lieh-tzu, 74-91

Tu Wei-ming, "The Confucian Sage: Exemplar of Personal Knowledge" (Saints and Virtues), 73-86

Zhu Weizheng, "The Confucius of History and the History of Confucius" (Coming out of the Middle Ages), 63-81

Frederick Mote, Intellectual Foundations of China, 1-58

A. C. Graham, Disputers of the Tao, 9-33

Lionel Jensen, "The Invention of 'Confucius' and His Chinese Other, 'Kong Fuzi'" (positions1.2, Fall, 1993): 414-49

Charles Hucker, China to 1850, 1-54

supplementary readings:

D.C. Lau, "Events in the Life of Confucius" (The Analects), 161-195

Ssu-ma Ch'ien, "Confucius" (Records of the Historian), 1-27

K'ang Yu-wei, "Confucius' Institutional Reforms" (Chan, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy), 727-729

David Hall & Roger Ames, Thinking Through Confucius

Herbert Fingarette, Confucius: The Secular as Sacred, 1-56

Tu Wei-ming, "Jen as a Living Metaphor in the Confucian Analects" (Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation), 81-92

Benjamin Schwartz, "Confucius: The Vision of the Analects," The World of Thought in Ancient China, 56-134

III. Humanity vs. Rites

Mencius, Books IA-B, VIA, VIIB

Hsun-tzu, 15-23, 89-111, 139-172

Xunzi [Hsun-tzu], Book 6: 212-32

Graham, Disputers of the Tao, 111-137, 235-267

Mote, Intellectual Foundations, 77-83

Benjamin Schwartz, "Emergence of a Common Discourse," The World of Thought in Ancient China, 172-185

supplementary readings:

Benjamin Schwartz, "Mo-tzu's Challenge," The World of Thought in Ancient China, 135-172

Chuang Tzu, 36-49; 50-63; 73-88; 96-110; 362-377

Mo-tzu, 39-49, 78-93, 124-136

Benjamin Schwartz, "The Defense of the Confucian Faith," The World of Thought in Ancient China, 255-320

Tu Wei-ming, "The Idea of the Human in Mencian Thought," 93-112

Graham, Disputers of the Tao, 137-235

Mote, Intellectual Foundations, 59-76, 92-114

Lee Yearley, "Hsun Tzu on the Mind: His Attempted Synthesis of Confucianism and Taoism" (Journal of Asian Studies, May 1980), 465-480

IV. Classicism

Han (206 B.C.-A.D.220)-T'ang (618-907) periods

Po Hu T'ung (Comprehensive Discussions in the White Tiger Hall), "Introduction," 66-91, 95-100, 137-154, "Sages," 528-533, "The Five Canons," 606-610

Michael Nylan, "The Chin wen/Ku wen Controversy in Han Times" (T'oung Pao 1994), 83-145

Benjamin Schwartz, "The Five Classics," The World of Thought in Ancient China, 383-406

David McMullen, State and Scholars in T'ang China, 67-112

Ch'ing period (1644-1911)

Benjamin Elman, "Philosophy (I-li) Versus Philology (K'ao-cheng): The Jen-hsin Tao-hsin Debate" (T'oung Pao, 1983), 175-222

Kent Guy, "The Development of the Evidential Research Movement: Ku Yen-wu and the Ssu-k'u ch'uan-shu" (The Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies), 97-116

Liang Ch'i-ch'ao, Intellectual Trends in the Ch'ing Period, 54-62

Charles Hucker, China to 1850, 55-100

supplementary readings:

Robert Kramers, "The Development of the Confucian Schools" (Cambridge History of China, Vol. I), 747-765

Benjamin Elman, "The Unraveling of Neo-Confucianism: From Philosophy to Philology in Late Imperial China" (The Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies), 67-88

Benjamin Elman, "Classicism, Politics, and Kinship, 74-185

John Henderson, Scripture, Canon, and Commentary

writing assignment: short essay

V. Ritual

Book of Rites, Book XXII: "Comprehensive Account of the Rites," 236-54; XXV-XXVI: "Chung-ni at Home at Ease," 270-77, "K'ung-tzu at Home at Leisure," 278-83

Po Hu T'ung (Comprehensive Discussions in the White Tiger Hall), "Rites and Music," 387-409

Patricia Ebrey, Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China, 14-101, 119-35, 158-66, 183-85, 202-19

Chu Hsi, Family Rituals, 5-35

Lawrence Thompson, Chinese Religion: An Introduction, 4th ed., 36-59

Paul Chao, "Ancestral Rituals and Kinship" (Chinese Kinship), 101-31

Kai-wing Chow, The Rise of Confucian Ritualism in Late Imperial China, 44-70

"Leviticus" (Holy Bible), 88-116 supplementary readings:

Jonathan Z. Smith, "The Bare Facts to Ritual" (Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown), 53-65

Catherine Bell, Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, 19-55

VI. Quest for Sagehood: Southern Sung (960-1279)

Chu Hsi, Learning to Be a Sage, 96-142

Chu Hsi and Lu Tsu-ch'ien, Reflections on Things at Hand, chs., 1-3

Julia Ching, "The Goose Lake Monastery Debate (1175)" (Journal of Chinese Philosophy, March 1974), 161-178

Hoyt Tillman, "Divergent Philosophic Orientations Toward Values: The Debate Between Chu Hsi and Ch'en Liang" (Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Dec. 1978), 363-387

Wing-tsit Chan, "Chu Hsi's Completion of Neo-Confucianism" (Chu Hsi: Life and Thought), 103-138

Peter Bol, "Chu Hsi's Redefinition of Learning" (Neo-Confucian Education), 151-185

Linda Walton, "The Institutional Context of Neo-Confucianism: Scholars, Schools, and Shu-yuan in Sung-Yuan China" (Neo-Confucian Education), 457-492

Charles Hucker, China to 1850, 103-122 supplementary readings: Charles Hartman, Han Yu and the T'ang Search for Unity, 173-210

Peter Bol, "Su Shih and Culture" (Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching), 56-99

A.C. Graham, Two Chinese Philosophers, 3-140

Ch'en Ch'un, Neo-Confucian Terms Explained (the Pei-hsi tzu-i), 105-113, 175-86, 201-206

Conrad Schirokauer, "Neo-Confucians Under Attack: The Condemnation of Wei-hsueh" (Crisis and Prosperity in Sung China), 163-198

Daniel Gardner, "Modes of Thinking and Modes of Discourse in the Sung" (Journal of Asian Studies, Aug. 1991), 574-603

David Gedalecia, "Wu Ch'eng's Approach to Internal Self-Cultivation and External Knowledge-seeking" (Yuan Thought), 279-326

Hoyt C.Tillman, Confucian Discourse and Chu Hsi's Ascendancy, 19-82

James T.C. Liu, China Turning Inward, 21-53, 131-155

John Haeger, "The Intellectual Context of Neo-Confucian Syncretism" (Journal of Asian Studies, 1972), 499-513

Wing-tsit Chan, "Chu Hsi and Yuan Neo-Confucianism" (Yuan Thought), 27-88

Wm. Theodore deBary, Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy and the Learning of the Mind-and-Heart

VII. Quest for Sagehood: Ming (1368-1644)

Huang Tsung-hsi, The Records of the Ming Scholars, 70-96, 100-118, 213-218

Worldly Wisdom: Confucian Teachings of the Ming Dynasty, 1-15, 25-29, 35-64, 117-121, 153-156, 159-162

Wang Yang-ming, "The Doctrine of the Four Axioms" (Instructions for Practical Living), 241-246

Wang Yang-ming, "Preface to Chu Hsi's Final Conclusions Arrived at Late in Life" (Instructions for Practical Living), 263-267

Wang Yang-ming, "Inquiry into the Great Learning" (Instructions for Practical Living), 271-280

Lo Ch'in-shun, "Two Letters to Wang Yang-ming" (Knowledge Painfully Acquired), 175-188

Wang Yang-ming, "Letter in Reply to Vice-Minister Lo Cheng-an" (Instructions for Practical Living), 157-165

T'ang Chun-i, "The Development of the the Concept of Moral Mind from Wang Yang-ming to Wang Chi" (Self and Society in Ming Thought), 93-120

Tu Wei-ming, "An Inquiry into Wang Yang-ming's Four Sentence Teaching" (The Eastern Buddhist, Oct. 1974), 32-48

T'ang Chun-i, "Liu Tsung-chou's Doctrine of Moral Mind and Practice and His Critique of Wang Yang-ming" (The Unfolding of Neo-Confucianism), 305-332

Charles Hucker, China to 1850, 133-54 supplementary readings:

Irene Bloom, "On the Abstraction of Ming Thought: Some Concrete Evidence from the Philosophy of Lo Ch'in-shun" (Principle and Practicality), 69-125

Wing-tsit Chan, "The Ch'eng-Chu School of Early Ming" (Self and Society in Ming Thought), 29-52

Wm. Theodore de Bary, The Message of the Mind, 72-123

Thomas Wilson, "Ming Confucianism: A Historical Survey" (The Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy)

writing assignment: long essay

VIII. Engendering the Dao

Alison Black, "Gender and Cosmology in Chinese Correlative Thinking" (Gender and Religion), 166-195

Bittine Birge, "Chu Hsi and Women's Education" (Neo-Confucian Education, The Formative Stage), 325-67

Joanna Handlin, "Lu K'un's New Audience: The Influence of Women's Literacy on 16th Century Thought" (Women in Chinese Society), 13-38

Katherine Carlitz, "The Social Uses of Female Virtue in Late Ming Editions of Lienu zhuan" (Late Imperial China, Dec. 1991), 117-148

Dorothy Ko, "Pursuing Talent and Virtue: Education and Women's Culture in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China" (Late Imperial China, June 1992), 9-39

Susan Mann, "'Fuxue' (Women's Learning) by Zhang Xuecheng (1738-1801): China's First History of Women's Culture" (Late Imperial China, June 1992), 40-62

T'ang Chun-i, "Liu Tsung-chou's Doctrine of Moral Mind and Practice and His Critique of Wang Yang-ming" (The Unfolding of Neo-Confucianism), 305-332

Li Yu, "A Male Mencius's Mother Raises her Son Properly by Moving House Three Times"

Sophie Volpp, "The Discourse on Male Marriage: Li Yu's 'A Male Mencius's Mother'" (positions Spring 1994)

Tani Barlow, "Theorizing Women: Funu, Guojia, Jiating [Chinese Women, Chinese State, Chinese Family]" (Body, Subject & Power in China), 253-289

writing assignment: short essay

IX. Society, Politics, Examinations, Orthodoxy

Wu Ching-tzu, The Scholars, chapters 1-4, 7-8, 17-19

Benjamin Elman, "Imperial Politics and Confucian Societies in Late Imperial China" (Modern China, Oct. 1989), 379-418

Ichisada Miyazaki, China's Examination Hell, 7-33, 39-101

Frederic Wakeman Jr., "The Evolution of Local Control in Late Imperial China" (Wakeman & Grant, eds. Conflict and Control in Late Imperial China), 1-25

supplementary readings:

John Chaffee, The Thorny Gates of Learning in Sung China.

Thomas H.C. Lee, Government Education and Examinations in Sung China.

X. Genealogy and Sectarianism

Chu Hsi and Lu Tsu-ch'ien, Reflections on Things at Hand, 279-308

Edward Ch'ien, "Chiao Hung and the Revolt against Ch'eng-Chu Orthodoxy" (The Unfolding of Neo-Confucianism), 271-296

Thomas Wilson, Genealogy of the Way, 72-111

Liang Ch'i-ch'ao, Intellectual Trends in the Ch'ing Period, 11-48

Han Yu, "On the Origin of the Way," 1-6

Huang Tsung-hsi, The Records of the Ming Scholars, "Preface," 223-64

Chang Hsueh-ch'eng/Zhang Xuecheng, "On the Tao"

Yu Ying-shih, "Some Preliminary Observations on the Rise of Ch'ing Confucian Intellectualism," Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, n.s. 11 (Dec. 1975): 105-46. supplementary readings:

Wing-tsit Chan, Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, 692-708

Daniel Gardner, "Transmitting the Way: Chu Hsi and his Program of Learning" (Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, June 1989), 141-172

Liu Shu-hsien, "The Problem of Orthodoxy in Chu Hsi's Philosophy" (Chu Hsi and Neo-Confucianism), 437-460

Tu Wei-ming, "Perceptions of Learning (hsueh) in Early Ch'ing Thought," 27-61

Thomas Wilson, "Genealogy and History in Neo-Confucian Uses of the Confucian Past" (Modern China), 3-33

XI. Cults of Confucius

Book of Rites, VI. "Wan Wang Shih Sze," 343-63 (esp. #5-14)

V.C. Hart, The Temple and the Sage, 66-80

Huang Chin-Hsing, "The Confucian Temple as a Ritual System" (The Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, June 1995), 115-135

David McMullen, State and Scholars in T'ang China, 1-66

Thomas Wilson, "The Ritual Formation of Confucian Orthodoxy and the Descendants of the Sage" (The Journal of Asian Studies Aug. 1996), 559-584

Lawrence Thompson, Chinese Religion: An Introduction, 4th ed., 75-88

Romeyn Taylor, "Official and Popular Religion and the Political Organization of Chinese Society in the Ming" (Orthodoxy in Late Imperial China), 126-57

Chu Hsi, Family Rituals, 153-178 supplementary readings:

Thomas Wilson, Genealogy of the Way, 23-71

C.K. Yang, Religion in Chinese Society, 244-277

V.C. Hart, The Temple and the Sage, 49-65

XII. New Confucianism in the 20th Century

Carson Chang, et al., "A Manifesto for a Reappraisal of Sinology and Reconstruction of Chinese Culture" (Development of Neo-Confucian Thought), 455-83

Wing-tsit Chan, Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, 763-772

Chen Lai, "Modern Chinese Thought: A Retrospective View and a Look into the Future" (Chinese Studies in Philosophy), 3-24

Tu Wei-ming, "Toward a Third Epoch of Confucian Humanism: A Background Understanding" (Confucianism: The Dynamics of Tradition), 3-21

Zheng Jia-dong, "The Fate of Confucianism and of the New Confucianism: A Philosophical Reflection on the Debate on Culture since May Fourth" (Chinese Studies in Philosophy), 41-71

Guy Alitto, The Last Confucian, 70-153

writing assignment: long essay

Confucianism: A Chronological Bibliography

Bibliographies

Bibliography of Asian Studies published annually by Journal of Asian Studies, 1956-

Chan, Wing-tsit, An Outline and Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Philosophy. New Haven: Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, 1961

Hucker, Charles O. China: A Critical Bibliography. Tuscon, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1962

Chang, Chun-shu, Premodern China: A Bibliographical Introduction. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 1971

Loewe, Michael. Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide. Institute for East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, 1993

Mackerras, Colin, Essays on the Sources for Chinese History. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1975

Yuan Tung-li, China in Western Literature. New Haven: Yale University Far Eastern Publications, 1958

Confucianism: General

Bodde, Derk. "Harmony and Conflict in Chinese Philosophy," in Arthur F. Wright, ed., Studies in Chinese Thought. Chicago, 1953, 19-80

Chan, Wing-tsit, trans and comp. A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy. Princeton, 1963

Creel, H. G. Chinese Thought from Confucius to Mao Tse-tung. Chicago, 1953; paperback reprint, N. Y.: Mentor Books, 1960

de Bary, Wm. Theodore. Wing-tsit Chan, and Burton Watson, Sources of Chinese Tradition. Columbia, 1960

Eno, Robert .The Confucian Creation of Heaven: Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery. SUNY, 1990

Fung, Yu-lan. A History of Chinese Philosophy, trans. by Derk Bodde. 2 vols. Princeton, 1952-53

________. A Short History of Chinese Philosophy. Ed. by Derk Bodde. The Free Press, 1966

Henderson, John. The Development and Decline of Chinese Cosmology. Columbia, 1984

________. Scripture, Canon, and Commentary: A Comparison of Confucian and Western Exegesis. Princeton, 1991

Lin, Yu-tang. The Wisdom of China and India. Modern Library, 1942

Liu, Kwang-Ching, ed. Orthodoxy in Late Imperial China. California, 1990

Munro, Donald. The Concept of Man in Early China. Stanford, 1969

________, ed. Individualism and Holism: Studies in Confucian and Taoist Values. Michigan, 1985

Nivison, David and Arthur Wright. Confucianism in Action. Stanford, 1959

Shryock, John K. The Origin and Development of the State Cult of Confucius. Century, 1932; reprint, Paragon, 1966

Smith, Richard and D. W. Y. Kwok, eds. Cosmology, Ontology, and Human Efficacy. Hawaii, 1993

Wright, Arthur. The Confucian Persuasion. Stanford, 1960

Wright, Arthur and Denis Twitchett, Confucian Personalities. Stanford, 1962

Han (206 B.C.-A.D.220)

Bielenstein, Hans. "The Restoration of the Han Dynasty," Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, XXVI (1954); 1-209 and XXXI (1959), 1-187

Chen Chi-yun. Hsun Yueh (A.D. 148-209): The Life and Reflections of an Early Medieval Confucian. Cambridge, 1975

Holcombe, Charles. In the Shadow of the Han: Literati Thought and Society at the Beginning of the Southern Dynasties. Hawaii, 1994

Sui (589-618)-T'ang (618-907)

Barrett, T. H. Taoism Under the T'ang: Religion and Empire During the Golden Age of Chinese History. Wellsweep, 1995

Cambridge History of China. Vol. 3. Sui and T'ang China 589-906, Part 1. Cambridge, 1979

Chen, Jo-shui. Liu Tsung-yuan and Intellectual Change in T'ang China, 773-819. Cambridge, 1992

de Bary, Wm. Theodore. "A Reappraisal of Neo-Confucianism," in Arthur F. Wright, ed., Studies in Chinese Thought. Chicago, 1953, 81-111

Ebrey, Patricia and Peter Gregory, eds., Religion and Society in T'ang and Sung China. Hawaii, 1993

Haeger, John. "The Intellectual Context of Neo-Confucian Syncretism" (Journal of Asian Studies, 1972), 499-513

Johnson, David. The Medieval Chinese Oligarchy. Westview, 1977

Wechsler, Howard. Mirror To the Son of Heaven: Wei Cheng at the Court of T'ang T'ai-tsung. Yale, 1974

________. Offerings of Jade and Silk: Ritual and Symbol in the Legitimation of the T'ang Dynasty. Yale, 1985

Wright, Arthur, and Denis Twitchett, eds. Perspectives on the T'ang. Yale, 1973

Late Imperial Confucianism & Neo-Confucianism, 960-1911

Bol, Peter K. This Culture of Ours: Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China. Stanford, 1992

Chan, Wing-tsit, ed. Chu Hsi and Neo-Confucianism. Hawaii, 1986

Chang, Carson. Development of Neo-Confucian Thought. Bookman, 1957

de Bary, Wm. Theodore, and John Chaffee, eds. Neo-Confucian Education. California, 1989

________. Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy and the Learning of the Mind-and-Heart, Columbia, 1981

________. The Message of the Mind in Neo-Confucianism, Columbia, 1989

Wilson, Thomas A. Genealogy of the Way: The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in Late Imperial China. Stanford, 1995

Sung (960-1279)

Chaffee, John. The Thorny Gates of Learning in Sung China. SUNY, 1995

Ch'en Ch'un. Neo-Confucian Terms Explained (the Pei-hsi tzu-i). Columbia, 1986

Gardner, Daniel. "Transmitting the Way: Chu Hsi and his Program of Learning" (Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, June 1989), 141-172

Gedalecia, David. "Excursion into Substance and Function" The Development of the T'i-Yung Paradigm in Chu Hsi" (Philosophy East and West, 1974), 443-51

Graham, A.C. Two Chinese Philosophers

Haeger, John, ed. Crisis and Prosperity in Sung China. Arizona, 1975

Hymes, Robert Statesmen and Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou, Chiang-hsi, in Northern and Southern Sung. Cambridge, 1986

Hymes, Robert & C. Schirokauer, eds. Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China. California, 1993

Liu, James T.C. Ou-yang Hsiu: An Eleventh Century Neo-Confucianist. Stanford, 1967

________. China Turning Inward: Intellectual-Political Changes in the Early Twelfth Century. Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies, 1988

Schirokauer, Conrad. "Neo-Confucians Under Attack: The Condemnation of Wei-hsueh" (Crisis and Prosperity in Sung China), 163-198

Smith, Kiddder, Jr., Peter Bol, Joseph Adler, Don Wyatt. Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching. Princeton, 1990

Sung Biographies. Ed. Herbert Franke. 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Steiner Verlag, 1976

Tillman, Hoyt C. Confucian Discourse and Chu Hsi's Ascendancy. Hawaii, 1993

Chin (1115-1234)-Yuan (1206-1368)

Chan Hok-lam & W.T. de Bary, eds. Yuan Thought: Chinese Thought and Religion Under the Mongols. Columbia, 1982

Dardess, John. Conquerers and Confucians: Aspects of Political Change in Late Yuan China. Columbia, 1973

Herbert, Franke, and Denis Twitchett, eds. The Cambridge History of China Vol. 6: Alien Regimes and Border States, 907-1368. Cambridge, 1994

Langlois, John D. ed. China Under Mongol Rule. Princeton, 1981

Senor, Denis ed. The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia. Cambridge, 1990

Tillman, Hoyt C. & Stephan H. West, eds. China Under Jurchen Rule. SUNY, 1995

Ming (1368-1644)

Bloom, Irene. "On the Abstraction of Ming Thought: Some Concrete Evidence from the Philosophy of Lo Ch'in-shun" (Principle and Practicality), 69-125

Dardess, John. Confucianism and Autocracy: Professional Elites in the Founding of the Ming Dynasty. California, 1983

de Bary, Wm. Theodore, ed. Self and Society in Ming Thought. Columbia, 1970

________. The Unfolding of Neo-Confucianism. Columbia, 1975

Dictionary of Ming Biography. Ed. L. C. Goodrich and Chaoying Fang. 2 vols. Columbia, 1976

Dimberg, Ronald. The Sage and Society: The Life and Thought of Ho Hsin-yin. Hawaii, 1974

The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 7. The Ming Dynasty 1368-1644, Parts 1 and 2. Cambridge, 1988

Taylor, Rodney. The Cultivation of Sagehood as a Religious Goal in Neo-Confucianism. American Academy of Religion and Scholars, 1978

Tu Wei-ming. Neo-Confucian Thought in Action: Wang Yang-ming's Youth (1472-1509). California, 1976

Ch'ing (1644-1911)

Black, Alison. Man and Nature in the Philosophical Thought of Wang Fu-chih. Washington, 1989

Chang, Hao. Chinese Intellectuals in Crisis: Search for Order and Meaning, 1890-1911. California, 1987

Chow, Kai-wing. The Rise of Confucian Ritualism in Late Imperial China. Stanford, 1994

de Bary, Wm. Theodore. The Unfolding of Neo-Confucianism. Columbia, 1975

Elman, Benjamin and Alexander Woodside, eds. Education in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900. California, 1994

Elman, Benjamin. "Imperial Politics and Confucian Societies in Late Imperial China" (Modern China, Oct. 1989), 379-418

________. Classism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China. California, 1990

________. From Philosophy to Philology: Social and Intellectual Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China. Harvard UniversityCouncil on East Asian Studies, 1984

Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period

Guy, Kent. "The Development of the Evidential Research Movement: Ku Yen-wu and the Ssu-k'u ch'uan-shu" (The Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies), 97-116

________. The Emperor's Four Treasuries: Scholars and the State in the Late Ch'ien-lung Era. Harvard UniversityCouncil on East Asian Studies, 1987

Huang, Chin-shing. Philosophy, Philology, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century China. Cambridge, 1995

Liang Ch'i-ch'ao. Intellectual Trends in the Ch'ing Period. Tr. Immanuel C.Y. Hsu. Harvard, 1959

Nivison, David. The Life and Thought of Chang Hsueh-ch'eng. Stanford, 1966

Peterson, Willard. Bitter Gourd: Fang I-chih and the Impetus for Intellectual Change. Yale, 1979

Schwartz, Benjamin. In Search of Wealth and Power: Yen Fu and the West. Harvard, 1964

Tai Chen. Tai Chen on Mencius: Explorations in Words and Meanings. Tr. Ann-ping Chin and Mansfield Freeman. Yale, 1990

Yu Ying-shih. "Some Preliminary Observations on the Rise of Ch'ing Confucian Intellectualism," Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, New Series 11 (1973) pp. 105-144

20th Century

Alitto, Guy S. The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity. California, 1978

Furth, Charlotte, ed. The Limits of Change: Essays on Conservative Alternatives in Republican China. Harvard, 1976

Grieder, Jerome B. Intellectuals and the State in Modern China: A Narrative History. Free Press, 1981

Levenson, Joseph R. Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and the Mind of Modern China. Harvard, 1953

Metzger, Thomas A. Escape from Predicament: Neo-Confucianism and China's Evolving Political Culture. Columbia, 1977

Useful web pages

The East Asian Libraries Cooperative World-Wide Web

Classical Chinese Historiography for Chinese History

Wesleyan Neo-Confucian Etext Project


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