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A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy
(Translated And Compiled By Wing-Tsit Chan)
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Description for A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy
paperback. An anthology of Chinese philosophy that covers its entire historical development. It provides selections from various thinkers and schools in every period - ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary - and includes in their entirety some of the important classical texts. It deals with the fundamental, and technical aspects of Chinese thought. Translator(s): Chang, Wing-tsit. Num Pages: 888 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 139 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1080. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy is a milestone along the complex and difficult road to significant understanding by Westerners of the Asian peoples and a monumental contribution to the cause of philosophy. It is the first anthology of Chinese philosophy to cover its entire historical development. It provides substantial selections from all the great thinkers and schools in every period--ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary--and includes in their entirety some of the most important classical texts. It deals with the fundamental and technical as well as the more general aspects of Chinese thought. With its new translation of source materials (some translated for the first time), its explanatory aids where necessary, its thoroughgoing scholarly documentation, this volume will be an indispensable guide for scholars, for college students, for serious readers interested in knowing the real China.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
888
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691019642
SKU
KSG0033265
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99-1
About (Translated And Compiled By Wing-Tsit Chan)
Wing-tsit Chan (1901–1994) was the Anna R. D. Gillespie Professor of Philosophy at Chatham University and professor emeritus of Chinese philosophy and culture at Dartmouth College.
Reviews for A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy
"[E]normous chunks of the philosophers, and the commentary reduced to the essential minimum. Mr Chan's theme is Chinese humanism, because this is the unavoidable theme of Chinese philosophy in nearly all ages. Heroically he has translated his philosophers himself, with the result that for the first time the entire map is seen through a consistent eye. 'Source Book': no. Please look on it instead as a massive and superb anthology."
Robert Payne, Saturday Review "[Mr. Chan's] brilliant scholarship has enabled him to strike a balance between modern, medieval and ancient periods as well as between Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, and for the first time a leading Chinese scholar has carefully weighed the influences and importance's as well as the themes of many of the Chinese philosophers."
John Coombes, Columbus Enquirer "[T]he Neo-Confucian translations in particular are the most reliable yet made, and show a familiarity with classical allusions, early colloquial idiom and the turns of Neo-Confucian thought which no Western translator can hope to emulate."
A. C. Graham, Journal of the American Oriental Society "[T]he volume is virtually an encyclopedia."
Journal of Bible and Religion
Robert Payne, Saturday Review "[Mr. Chan's] brilliant scholarship has enabled him to strike a balance between modern, medieval and ancient periods as well as between Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, and for the first time a leading Chinese scholar has carefully weighed the influences and importance's as well as the themes of many of the Chinese philosophers."
John Coombes, Columbus Enquirer "[T]he Neo-Confucian translations in particular are the most reliable yet made, and show a familiarity with classical allusions, early colloquial idiom and the turns of Neo-Confucian thought which no Western translator can hope to emulate."
A. C. Graham, Journal of the American Oriental Society "[T]he volume is virtually an encyclopedia."
Journal of Bible and Religion