A Panoramic History of Traditional Chinese Ethics

Professor Yi-ting ZHU (朱贻庭) is an expert of Chinese philosophy and ethics at the Department of Philosophy of East China Normal University, and the honorary Chair of Shanghai Society of Ethical Studies. Long committed to the studies of classic Chinese ethics, he has won many distinguished prizes, among which “A Prize for Lifelong Achievement” issued by Chinese Society of Ethics is of greatest significance. Besides more than a hundred of essays in various academic journals, he has composed such monographs as A History of Traditional Chinese Ethics, Six Distinctive Aspects of Traditional Chinese Morality, and Contemporary Chinese Moral Orientation, compiled such dictionaries as A Great Dictionary of Ethics, A Dictionary of Applied Ethics, and served as one of the major compilers of 6th and 7th editions of A Grand Chinese Lexicon Dictionary《辞海》. Professor Xiaofei Matthew WEI (魏啸飞) is a scholar of American history and Jewish American literature at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Visiting Scholar of Harvard University (2007) and Columbia University (2013). He has single-handedly chaired several academic projects, such as The National Projects of Social Sciences (2011, 2016) and The Gilder Lehman Institute Project (New York, 2007). Having authored a number of essays and monographs, his English textbook A Panoramic History of American Civilization for Colleges (2008, revised in 2013) is now of considerable influence in the country and has won once an Excellence Prize of Shanghai Municipal Committee of Education (2011) and twice the Grand Excellence Prize of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2011, 2015). Professor Corey L. Twitchell, a Gerald Westheimer Fellow and a scholar of Classical Languages and Literatures at the Department of Languages & Philosophy, Southern Utah University, USA.He has done a great deal of proofreading work and translated into English Judaism for Christians: Menasseh Ben Israel (1604-1657) by Sina Rauschenbach (Lanham, MD:Lexington Books, October 2019), and Tzimtzum: God and the Origins of the World  by Christoph Schulte (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, under contract, forthcoming 2020).  Professor Barry D. Steben, who learned the history of Chinese thoughts and religion at the University of British Columbia, and obtained his Ph.D. of East Asian philosophy at the University of Toronto, claims highly fluent Mandarin Chinese plus strong background in classical Chinese, and 18 years of university teaching in East Asia, such as Chinese University of Hong Kong, National Taiwan University, National University of Singapore, and Shanghai International Studies University. He has composed such representative works as “Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy”, “Nishi Amane and the Birth of ‘Philosophy’ and ‘Chinese Philosophy’ in Early Meiji Japan”, “The Culture of Music and Ritual in Pre-Han Confucian Thought: Exaltingthe Power of Music in Human Life”, and “Wang Yangming Learning and the Path to Wisdom in the Philosophy of Ōshio Heihachirō”. 

Chapter 1. The Birth of Traditional Chinese Ethical Thoughts in West Zhou (1046－771 B.C.).- Chapter 2. The Ethical Thoughts of Spring and Autumn Era (770－476 B.C.) and Warring States Era (475－221 B.C.).- Chapter 3. The Ethical Thoughts of Qin to Han Dynasties (221 B.C.－A.D. 220).- Chapter 4. The Ethical Thoughts of Wei and Jin Dynasties (220－420).- Chapter 5. The Ethical Thoughts of North and South Dynasties plus Sui and Tang (420－960).- Chapter 6. The Ethical Thoughts of Song to Mid-Ming (960－c.1500).- Chapter 7. The Ethical Thoughts of Latter-Ming to Opium War (c.1500－1840).