"Four Warring States texts discovered during the late twentieth-century challenge longstanding understandings of Chinese intellectual history. The discovery of previously unknown philosophical texts f
Explores the development of Chinese thought, highlighting its concern with questions of coherence. Providing a bracing expansion of horizons, this book displays the unsuspected range of human thinking
An innovative approach to historical records assesses how evidence claims and policy arguments were put forth in the royal courts of early China. What were the intentions of early Chinas historians? M
Scholars of East Asian philosophy and religion explore attitudes and concepts concerning death in early China. Their topics include preparations for an afterlife in ancient China, concepts of death an
Discusses interpretations of the Yijing (the I Ching or Book of Changes) during the Northern Song period and how these illuminate the momentous changes in Chinese society during this era.
Provides the first complete critical study in any language of one of traditional China's most important prime ministers, and traces the intellectual history of an era, the middle of the T'ang dynasty,
Scholars of philosophy and religion present 12 essays on the mysterious Tang-dynasty text and even more mysterious author, Yin Jingshun. It has come down to the present as a collection of hyperbolic a
Explores the relationship between liberal democracy and Confucianism and argues for a Chinese future where both coexist as independent value systems. Compares Chinese and Western ideas and philosophie
