Knowledge, thought, and belief before the seventh century CE

Author(s)

• 葛, 兆光 カツ, チョウコウ ge, zhao guang
• Duke, Michael S.
• Chiu-Duke, Josephine

Bibliographic Information

Knowledge, thought, and belief before the seventh century CE

（Brill's humanities in China library / edited by Zhang Longxi, Axel Schneider, v. 6 . { An intellectual history of China / by Ge Zhaoguang ; translated by Michael S. Duke and Josephine Chiu-Duke } ; v. 1）

Brill, c2014

• : hardback

Other Title

中国思想史

Note

Translation of author's abbreviation of his own work

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Winner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In An Intellectual History of China, Professor Ge Zhaoguang presents a history of traditional Chinese knowledge, thought and belief to the late six century CE with a new approach offering a new perspective. It appropriates a wide range of source materials and emphasizes the necessity of understanding ideas and thought in their proper historical contexts. Its analytical narrative focuses on the dialectical interaction between historical background and intellectual thought. While discussing the complex dynamics of interaction among the intellectual thought of elite Chinese scholars, their historical conditions, their canonical texts and the "worlds of general knowledge, thought and belief," it also illuminates the significance of key issues such as the formation of the Chinese world order and its underlying value system, the origins of Chinese cultural identity and foreign influences.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Chinese Intellectual History Writing Brief Prologue: The History of Chinese Intellectual History Itself Part One: The History of General Knowledge, Thought and Belief Part Two: Between the History of Knowledge and the History of Thought Part Three: the Foundational Presupposition of Chinese Thought: "Dao" or the "Way of Heaven" Part Four: The Continuity of Intellectual History Emerges Part Five: Historical Memory, Intellectual Resources and Reinterpretation Part Six: Pictures Where There Are No Pictures: How to Deal With Empty Spaces in Intellectual History Part Seven: Addition and Subtraction Methods in Intellectual History Research Part Eight: What Can Be A Resource Material for Intellectual History? Chapter One: Tracing the Origins of Chinese Intellectual History in the Three Dynasties (Ancient Times to ca. 6th Century BCE) Brief Prologue: Remote Antiquity Part One: Reconstructing the World of Ancient Thought: Traditional Written Documents, Modern Theory, and Archeological Discoveries Part Two: The Shang Conceptual System as Recorded in the Oracle Bone Inscriptions Part Three: Evolution of Thought as Recorded in the Written Documents and Bronze Inscriptions of the Western Zhou Part Four: Chinese Script and Chinese Intellectual History Part Five: Ceremonies, Symbols and A Numerological World Order as the Background of Later Intellectual History Chapter Two: Hundred Schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, I (ca. 6th to 3rd Century BCE) Brief Prologue: China's "Axial Age" Part One: General Knowledge and Thought in the Spring and Autumn Period Part Two: Continuation and Renewal of the Intellectual Tradition I: Ru or the Confucians Part Three: Continuation and Renewal of the Intellectual Tradition II: Mo or the Moists Part Four: Continuation and Renewal of the Intellectual Tradition III: Dao or the Daoists Part Five: Elite Thought and General Knowledge: Implications of Mantic and Medical Arts in Intellectual History Chapter Three: Hundred Schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, II (ca. 6th to 3rd Century BCE) Part One: Warring States Hundred Schools Contend, I: Cosmic Space and Time Part Two: Warring States Hundred Schools Contend, II: Social Order Part Three: Warring States Hundred Schools Contend, III: Life of the Individual Part Four: Language and Reality: the Warring States Period Disputations on Names Chapter Four: Intellectual Convergence in the Qin and Han Dynasties, from ca. the 3rd Century BCE to ca. the Mid-2nd Century CE Prologue: Coda to the "Hundred Schools of Thought Contending" Part One: General Knowledge Background and Intellectual Achievement in the Qin and Han dynasties Part Two: Toward A Synthesis of Knowledge and Philosophy: from the Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals to the Huainanzi Part Three: Establishment of A State Ideology: from the Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals to the Discourses in the White Tiger Hall Part Four: Classics and Apocrypha: the Consequences of Mutual Interaction between General Knowledge and Elite Thought Chapter Five: Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism from the End of the Eastern Han to the Early Tang Dynasty, I (ca. Mid-2nd to Mid-7th Centuries) Prologue: Foreign Influence Enters China Part One: Evolution of Autochthonous Chinese Thought and Learning from Han to Jin Part Two: The Mysterious and Profound: A Turning Point of Intellectual History in the Third Century CE Part Three: Purification of Daoist Teachings: the Religionization of Daoist Thought, Knowledge and Techniques Chapter Six: Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism from the Eastern Han to the Tang Dynasty II Part One: the Transmission of Buddhism to China and Its Significance in Intellectual History, I Part Two: the Transmission of Buddhism to China and Its Significance in Intellectual History, II Part Three: Buddhist Conquest of China? Part Four: Basic Outline of the Mainstream World of Knowledge and Thought in the Seventh Century Bibliography

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• NCID: BB15975275
• ISBN:
  • 9789004171756
• LCCN: 2013045569
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: chi
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 425 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B126
  • DC23 : 181/.11
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Philosophy, Chinese -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB13508621