Liu Tsung-Yüan and Intellectual Change in t'Ang China, 773-819

ISBN-13: 9780521419642 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 236 str.

Ruoshui Chen; Jo-Shui Ch'en; Patrick Hannan

Opis

This is the first comprehensive study in a Western language of Liu Tsung-yUan, one of the finest prose stylists China has ever produced. Liu was not only a leading writer of T'ang China (618-906) but also an important thinker of his time. Examining every major aspect of his life and thought, the book also discusses the relationship of his thought to mid-T'ang intellectual changes and offers a new interpretation of the origins of a key intellectual watershed, the rise of Neo-Confucianism in the eleventh century.

Recenzje

"...a thorough and scholarly study and a valuable addition to the small body of material that is available on the subject in English." Edwin G. Pulleyblank, China Review International

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Maps; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Literati and thought in the early and middle T'ang; 2. Liu Tsung-yüan and the circumstances of Ch'ang-an; 3. 805: the abortive reform; 4. Declaration of principles: Tao and antiquity; 5. Heaven, the supernatural, and Tao; 6. Literary theory, canonical studies and beyond; 7. Sources of Liu's Confucian thought; 8, The private sphere; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.