Students and teachers of Chinese history and philosophy will not want to miss Daniel Gardner's accessible translation of the teachings of Chu Hsi (1130-1200)--a luminary of the Confucian tradition who dominated Chinese intellectual life for centuries. Homing in on a primary concern of our own time, Gardner focuses on Chu Hsi's passionate interest in education and its importance to individual development. For hundreds of years, every literate person in China was familiar with Chu Hsi's teachings. They informed the curricula of private academies and public schools and became the basis of...
Students and teachers of Chinese history and philosophy will not want to miss Daniel Gardner's accessible translation of the teachings of Chu Hsi (113...
In this engaging volume, Daniel Gardner explains the way in which the Four Books--"Great Learning," "Analects," "Mencius," and "Maintaining Perfect Balance"--have been read and understood by the Chinese since the twelfth century. Selected passages in translation are accompanied by Gardner's comments, which incorporate selections from the commentary and interpretation of the renowned Neo-Confucian thinker, Zhu Xi (1130-1200).
This study provides an ideal introduction to the basic texts in the Confucian tradition from the twelfth through the twentieth centuries. It guides the reader...
In this engaging volume, Daniel Gardner explains the way in which the Four Books--"Great Learning," "Analects," "Mencius," and "Maintaining Perfect...
Reacting to the Past is a series of historical role-playing games that explore important ideas by re-creating the contexts that shaped them. Students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment.
An award-winning active-learning pedagogy, Reacting to the Past improves speaking, writing, and leadership skills, promotes engagement with classic texts and history, and builds learning communities. Reacting can be used across the curriculum, from the first-year general education class to "capstone"...
Reacting to the Past is a series of historical role-playing games that explore important ideas by re-creating the contexts that shaped th...
Daniel K. (Dwight W. Morrow Professor of History, Dwight W. Morrow Professor of History, Smith College) Gardner
To understand China, it is essential to understand Confucianism. First formulated in the sixth century BCE, the teachings of Confucius would come to dominate Chinese society, politics, economics, and ethics. In this Very Short Introduction, Daniel K. Gardner explores the major philosophical ideas of the Confucian tradition, showing their profound impact on state ideology and imperial government, the civil service examination system, domestic life, and social relations over the course of twenty-six centuries. Gardner focuses on two of the Sage's most crucial philosophical...
To understand China, it is essential to understand Confucianism. First formulated in the sixth century BCE, the teachings of Confucius would come to d...
China's economy has grown remarkably quickly in recent decades and is now the second largest in the world-but prosperity has come at great environmental cost. Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) examines the nature of the country's pollution crisis, the Chinese people's response to it, and the efforts by the state to tackle it.
China's economy has grown remarkably quickly in recent decades and is now the second largest in the world-but prosperity has come at great environment...
