Feng Youlan and Twentieth Century China

Feng Youlan and Twentieth Century China

Author: Xiaoqing Diana Lin

Publisher:

Published: 2016-02-11

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9789004301290

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This is an intellectual biography of Feng Youlan [Fung Yu-lan] (1895-1990). It explores Feng s work and the trajectory of changes in Feng s philosophical outlook against the social and political contexts of Feng s life from the 1920s to 1990."


Feng Youlan and Twentieth Century China

Feng Youlan and Twentieth Century China

Author: Xiaoqing Diana Lin

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-02-02

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 9004301305

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This is an intellectual biography of Feng Youlan [Fung Yu-lan] (1895-1990), one of the preeminent Chinese philosophers of the 20th century. Feng’s life very well captured the vicissitudes of twentieth-century Chinese politics and scholarship. He made his name in the 1930s and ’40s with a path-breaking approach to Chinese philosophy. And he was one of the few prominent pre-1949 non-Communist Chinese scholars who attempted to influence Chinese society with prolific publications after 1949. This monograph explores Feng Youlan’s work and the trajectory of changes in Feng’s philosophical outlook against the social and political contexts of Feng’s life from the 1920s to 1990. Feng’s search for a framework of Chinese philosophy that is open and connected to foreign learning, and a framework of self-cultivation that is open to outside ideas, continues to be important goals for Chinese philosophy today.


A History of Chinese Philosophy

A History of Chinese Philosophy

Author: Youlan Feng

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 820

ISBN-13: 9780691020228

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Since its original publication in Chinese in the 1930s, this work has been accepted by Chinese scholars as the most important contribution to the study of their country's philosophy. In 1952 the book was published by Princeton University Press in an English translation by the distinguished scholar of Chinese history, Derk Bodde, "the dedicated translator of Fung Yu-lan's huge history of Chinese philosophy" (New York Times Book Review). Available for the first time in paperback, it remains the most complete work on the subject in any language. Volume I covers the period of the philosophers, from the beginnings to around 100 B.C., a philosophical period as remarkable as that of ancient Greece. Volume II discusses a period lesser known in the West--the period of classical learning, from the second century B.C. to the twentieth century.


History of Chinese Philosophy

History of Chinese Philosophy

Author: Fung Yu-Lan

Publisher:

Published: 1953-01-01

Total Pages: 1304

ISBN-13: 9780691020242

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Dealing with the subject of Chinese philosophy, this two-volume set covers the period of the philosophers, from the beginnings to around 100 BC, a philosophical period as remarkable as that of ancient Greece. It also discusses a period lesser known in the West - the period of classical learning, from the second century BC to the twentieth century.


A Short History of Chinese Philosophy

A Short History of Chinese Philosophy

Author: Yu-lan Fung

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-01-17

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1501169629

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The classic chronicle of Chinese philosophical thought from the third millennium to the 20th century. From the sage-kings of ancient China to the 1911 overthrow of the oldest monarchical system in the world, Chinese philosophy has evolved and influenced schools of thought around the world. In an accessible voice, A Short History of Chinese Philosophy clearly illuminates Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, Yin-Yang, and more. For those interested in philosophy or Asian studies, this is the perfect window into ancient and modern Chinese ideology.


Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy

Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy

Author: Derong Chen

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2011-08-16

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0739150006

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In Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy: Illustrated with Feng Youlan's New Metaphysics, Derong Chen explores Chinese philosophy through a comprehensive study and critical analysis of Feng Youlan's new metaphysics, proposing a systematic analysis of meaning that differs from the approach of the comparative linguistic analysis that A.C. Graham and Chad Hasen employed in their studies of Chinese philosophy. This detailed analysis of Feng Youlan's new metaphysics demonstrates that Feng's system is not the completely Westernized philosophical system many scholars identify it as, nor is it the pure logical and analytical system Feng himself intended to construct. Rather, the essence and characteristics of the new metaphysics at the core of Feng's philosophical system expose his philosophy as a continuation of the Chinese philosophical tradition in a new era. This approach is most applicable to scholars of comparative philosophy and of any era of Chinese philosophy.


Contemporary Chinese Philosophy

Contemporary Chinese Philosophy

Author: Chung-Ying Cheng

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 0470752017

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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. Features essays by leading scholars in the field. Includes a glossary of Chinese characters and definitions.


Tradition and Modernity

Tradition and Modernity

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 9004165789

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The Question for Twentieth-Century China has been the integration of tradition and modernity. In this collection of essays written over a period of some twenty years (1987-2006), Chen Lai reflects on the question in an informative and original way. He reads behind the political slogans and engages with the thought both of Max Weber, Talcott Parsons and Western sociology, and representative Chinese thinkers, notably Feng Youlan and Liang Shuming. While the focus is on China, the book also appeals to anyone interested in this fascinating question of how to modernise whilst retaining the positive values of tradition. Chen Lai s unique and balanced grasp of society marks him out as the foremost thinker in China on this topic today.