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Chinese Classics Present Future, November 2018 Wordtrade.com| 1202 Raleigh Road 115| Chapel Hill NC 27517| USA ph 9195425719| fx 9198691643| www.wordtrade.com Spotlight 043 Here in 'China' I Dwell: Reconstructing Historical Discourses of China for Our Time by Ge Zhaoguang, translated by Jesse Field, Qin Fang Chinese Classics [Brill's Humanities in China Library, Brill, 9789004279971] Present Future The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty- First-Century Chinese Science Fiction by Mingwei Song and Theodore Huters [Weatherhead Books on Table of Contents Asia, Columbia University Press, 9780231180221] Studies on Contemporary Chinese Philosophy (1949– Slender Man Is Coming: Creepypasta and 2009) by Guo Qiyong, translated by Paul J. Contemporary Legends on the Internet edited by D’Ambrosio, Robert Carleo III, Joanna Guzowska, Chad Meyers, Martyna Świątczak et al. [Modern Trevor J. Blank & Lynne S. McNeill [Utah State Chinese Philosophy, Brill, 9789004360501] University Press, 9781607327806] Confucius and the World He Created by Michael Schuman [Basic, 9780465025510] Bibliography A Concise Companion to Confucius edited by Paul R. Goldin [Blackwell Companions to Philosophy, Wiley- Blackwell, 9781118783870] Neo-Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality by JeeLoo Liu [Wiley-Blackwell, 9781118619148] Studies on Contemporary Chinese Philosophy (1949– Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu 2009) by Guo Qiyong, translated by Paul J. Hyŏngwŏn and the Late Chosŏn Dynasty (Korean D’Ambrosio, Robert Carleo III, Joanna Guzowska, Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of Chad Meyers, Martyna Świątczak et al. [Modern International Studies) by James B. Palais [ University Chinese Philosophy, Brill, 9789004360501] of Washington Press, 9780295974552; paper Contents reprint edition, 9780295993782] Translator’s Introduction Introduction: Looking Back and Reflecting on The Analects of Dasan, Volume I: A Korean Syncretic Sixty Years of Research on Chinese Reading by Hongkyung Kim [Oxford University Press, Philosophy 9780190624996] Translated by Chad Meyers 1 Two Big Stages and Five Small The Analects of Dasan, Volume II: A Korean Syncretic Stages Reading by Hongkyung Kim [Oxford University Press, 2 The Eight Big Fields that Have Been 9780190686215] Popular in the Last Thirty Years Brill’s Humanities in China Library Series 1 The Fusion of East and West and the Establishment of Chinese Philosophy as a Introduction Discipline in the Early Twentieth Century An Intellectual History of China, Volume One: Translated by Yuan Ai Knowledge, Thought, and Belief before the Seventh 1.1 Wang Guowei, Liang Qichao, and Chinese Philosophy as a Discipline Century CE by Ge Zhaoguang [Brill’s Humanities in 1.2 The Paradigm of Hu Shi and Feng China Library, Brill, 9789004171756] Youlan—Under the Influence of Anglo- An Intellectual History of China, Volume Two: American Philosophy 1.3 The Paradigms of Guo Moruo and Knowledge, Thought, and Belief from the Seventh Hou Wailu—Under the Influence of Marxism through the Nineteenth Century by Ge Zhaoguang 2 The Early Achievements in Research on [Brill's Humanities in China Library, Brill, Chinese Philosophy 9789004367890] (1949–1978) Translated by Chad Meyers 1 | page spotlight|©authors|or|wordtrade.com wordtrade.com| spotlight 2.1 Chinese Philosophy under the 8 Contemporary Scholarship on Chinese Direction of Marxism Classics Translated by Martyna Świątczak 2.2 Chinese Philosophy’s Paradigm of 8.1 Classics and the Study of the “Two Pairs” and the Corresponding Classics as the Foundation of Chinese Debate Culture 2.3 The Initial Academic Achievements 8.2 The Study of the Zhou Yi of Research in Chinese Philosophy and Its Commentaries since the 1950s 3 Transformations of Research in Chinese 8.3 Overview of the Philosophy (1978–2009) Translated by Dan Scholarship on Shi and Shu in Recent Years Sarafinas 9 A Study of Minorities Philosophy 3.1 Liberation in Thought and the Translated by Sharon Small Shifting Research Paradigm 9.1 The Rise and Controversy of 3.2 Historical Research and Research in “Minorities Philosophy” Philosophical Categories 9.2 Specific Research 3.3 Subjectivity of Chinese Philosophy 9.3 A Comprehensive History of and and Paradigm Reconstruction Monograph on the Philosophy of All Ethnic 4 Research on Pre-Qin Philosophy Translated Groups by C.M. Morrow 9.4 Trends 4.1 Confucianism 10 Studies on Ancient Philosophy of 4.2 Daoism Nature and the Philosophy of Science and 4.3 Mohism Technology Translated by Paul J. D’Ambrosio 4.4 The Logicians, Legalists, 10.1 Ancient Philosophy of Nature and Its and Military Strategists Characteristics 5 Philosophical Research on the Qin-Han and 10.2 Philosophical Thinking in Ancient Science Sui-Tang Periods Translated by Dimitra and Technology Amarantidou 10.3 On the Relationship between Ancient 5.1 Philosophical Thought in Philosophy and Science and Technology the Qin-Han 10.4 Ancient Philosophy of Nature and the 5.2 Wei-Jin Xuanxue Research Method of the Philosophy of 5.3 The Collation of Classical Science and Technology Buddhist Texts and the History of Chinese 11 Studies in Classical Logic and Buddhism Epistemology Translated by Joanna 5.4 Major Buddhist Schools Guzowska 5.5 The Collation of Daoist 11.1 Research in the History of Chinese Logic Texts and the History of Chinese Daoism 11.2 Problems in Research on Chinese Logic 5.6 Daoist Schools 11.3 Major Developments in the Study of 5.7 Sui-Tang Confucianism and Classical Epistemology School of Confucian Classics 11.4 Research Paradigms in the Study of 6 Research on Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism Chinese Logic and Classical Translated by Chad Meyers and Joanna Epistemology Guzowska 12 Studies on Ancient Social and 6.1 Cheng-Zhu Neo- Political Philosophy Confucianism Translated by Martyna Świątczak 6.2 The Lu-Wang School of 12.1 Three Stages of Studies on Ancient Mind Political Philosophy 6.3 The Qi Tradition and Early 12.2 Contemporary Research on Ancient Enlightenment Political Philosophy 7 Studies in Early Modern and Modern 12.3 Specific Topics of Scholarship on Chinese Philosophy Translated by Joanna Ancient Political Philosophy in Recent Years Guzowska 12.4 The Methodological Reflection and 7.1 Research in Early Modern Prospects of Scholarship on Ancient Political Philosophy Philosophy 7.2 The Sinicization of Marxist 12.5 Society, Religion, Ethics, and Rites in Philosophy Ancient China 7.3 Modern New Confucianism 13 Excavated Bamboo and Silk Texts 7.4 Liberalism in Scholarship on the History of 2 | Page spotlight|©authors|or|wordtrade.com wordtrade.com| spotlight Chinese Philosophy Translated by Robert Looking Back and Reflecting on Sixty Carleo III 13.1 Relevant Excavated Texts of the Last Years of Research on Chinese Philosophy, Six Decades translated by Chad Meyers 13.2 Excavated Texts and Scholarship on First, we want to define “Chinese philosophy.” Classics and Masters According to the branches of study, what in the past Literature was called “the history of Chinese philosophy” is now Afterword by Guo Qiyong called “Chinese philosophy.” However, using the term Glossary of Historical Texts “Chinese philosophy” easily leads to a misconceived Glossary of Personal Names reference to the whole field or primary branch of Excerpt: A few issues concerning the translation worth philosophy in China. In this book “Chinese philosophy” a mention: First, the contents of each chapter was is generally equivalent to what is known today as written by a different author (and probably several “Chinese philosophy” of the so-called secondary students). The details of who wrote each section can branch, that is, “the history of Chinese philosophy.” But be found in the Afterword. Second, in the original this is not the end of the matter. What we have to Chinese, the style, format, and terminology varies explain is that analyzing “Chinese philosophy” solely throughout the book—from chapter to chapter and in terms of knowing and understanding is not enough. sometimes within a single chapter. Generally, we “Chinese philosophy” possesses at least two levels: the worked to establish consistencies that do not always appear in the original, especially for the sake of first level is “Chinese philosophy” as a world of formatting and where terminological discrepancies meaning. This level connotes a state of mind and the occur, but each chapter remains somewhat ideal of the ultimate meaning of human life, and independent in terms of style. Third, barring certain particularly the fundamental, whether general or key terms such as dao 道, li 礼, or ren 仁, we do not particular, spiritual beliefs or core values of Chinese attempt to do word-for-word translations. Indeed, civilization— like “the boundary of interrelation of there may be significant variances in how a term is Nature and human beings,” “the source of the natural translated, according to the context, implied order of human life,” dao 道 or “Dao” and li 理 or connotation, and with concern for English fluency. “Li,”—which constitute the living and fluidly Finally, there are some obscure ancient texts that do transforming level that still plays a positive role in not have agreed upon (in some cases, any) English securing a way of life in today’s world and in the titles. Glosses have been added for these titles either collective life of the Chinese people. Only the second by the chapter translator, but the glosses merely hint level is the academic level of “Chinese philosophy” as at the context of these texts, and are not meant to be a body of knowledge that is built up as a branch of translations of the actual title. study. Here we find what could be divided, classified, and separately taken into academic research. On this The term dao 道 can be translated as “way,” “path,” level “Chinese philosophy” can be cognitively turned or “discourse.” It is central to Chinese philosophical into the content of comparison with foreign philosophy thought, and can often be understood as the “way” of and taken to be the equivalent of the “Chinese the cosmos, or in Guo’s work as “the way of nature,” philosophy” that foreign sinologists take as the object which, if gone against, will only cause unproductive of their research.
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