Chinese History and Culture (eBook)

Ying-shih Yü is a preeminent historian of China. Awarded the John W. Kluge Prize for achievement in the Study of Humanity and the inaugural Tang Prize International Award in Sinology, he has published more than thirty books and five hundred articles and essays on Chinese history, thought, politics, and culture. His most recent works include Lun tian ren zhi ji (Between Heaven and the Human: An Exploration of the Origin of Ancient Chinese Thought, 2014), Zhu Xi de lishi shijie (The Historical World of Zhu Xi: A Study of the Political Culture of Song Intellectuals, 2003, 2011), and Shi yu Zhongguo wenhua (Chinese Intellectuals and Chinese Culture, 2003, 2010, and 2013).Josephine Chiu-Duke is associate professor of Chinese intellectual history in the Asian Studies Department at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of To Rebuild the Empire: Lu Chih's Confucian Pragmatist Approach to the Mid-T'ang Predicament (2000), editor of Liberalism and the Humanistic Tradition—Essays in Honor of Professor Lin Yü-sheng (2005), and co-translator of Ge Zhaoguang's An Intellectual History of China, Volume 1: Knowledge, Thought, and Belief Before the Seventh Century C.E. (2014).Michael S. Duke is professor emeritus of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of several books on modern and traditional Chinese literature, including Blooming and Contending: Chinese Literature in the Post-Mao Era (1985), translator of Koonchung Chan's The Fat Year (2011), and co-translator of Ge Zhaoguang's An Intellectual History of China, Volume 1 (2014).

Author's PrefaceEditorial NoteList of AbbreviationsChronology of Dynasties1. Some Preliminary Observations on the Rise of Qing Confucian Intellectualism2. Dai Zhen and the Zhu Xi Tradition3. Dai Zhen's Choice Between Philosophy and Philology4. Zhang Xuecheng Versus Dai Zhen: A Study in Intellectual Challenge and Response inEighteenth-Century China5. Qing Confucianism6. The Two Worlds of Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber)7. Sun Yat-sen's Doctrine and Traditional Chinese Culture8. The Radicalization of China in the Twentieth Century9. Neither Renaissance nor Enlightenment: A Historian's Reflections on the May Fourth Movement10. Modernization Versus Fetishism of Revolution in Twentieth-Century China11. The Idea of Democracy and the Twilight of the Elite Culture in Modern China12. China's New Wave of Nationalism13. Democracy, Human Rights and Confucian Culture14. Changing Conceptions of National History in Twentieth-Century China15. Reflections on Chinese Historical Thinking16. Modern Chronological Biography and the Conception of Historical Scholarship17. The Study of Chinese History: Retrospect and Prospect18. Confucianism and China's Encounter with the West in Historical Perspective19. Clio's New Cultural Turn and the Rediscovery of Tradition in AsiaAcknowledgmentsAppendix. The John W. Kluge Prize Address and The Tang Prize for Sinology Acceptance SpeechIndex