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. Between the Heavenly and the Human2. Life and Immortality in the Mind of Han China3. "O Soul, Come Back!" A Study in the Changing Conceptions of the Soul and Afterlife in Pre-Buddhist China4. New Evidence on the Early Chinese Conception of Afterlife5. Food in Chinese Culture: The Han Period6. The Seating Order at the Hong Men Banquet7. Individualism and the Neo-Daoist Movement in Wei-Jin China8. Intellectual Breakthroughs in the Tang-Song Transition9. Morality and Knowledge in Zhu Xi's Philosophical System10. Confucian Ethics and Capitalism11. Business Culture and Chinese Traditions—Toward a Study of the Evolution of Merchant Culture in Chinese History12. Reorientation of Confucian Social Thought in the Age of Wang Yangming13. The Intellectual World of Jiao Hong Revisited14. Toward an Interpretation of Intellectual Transition in the Seventeenth CenturyAcknowledgmentsAppendix. The John W. Kluge Prize Address and The Tang Prize for Sinology Acceptance SpeechIndex