Description

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Introduction PART ONE The Retrospective Creation of New Confucianism; J.Makeham The New Daotong; J.Makeham PART TWO Reconstructing the Confucian Ideal in 1980s China: the 'Culture Craze and New Confucianism; S.Xianlin Li Zehou and New Confucianism; S.Chan PART THREE What is Confucian and New about the Thought of Mou Zongsan?; S.Chan A Modern Chinese Philosophy Built Upon Critically Received Traditions: Feng Youlan's New Principle-centered Learning and the Question of its Relationship to Contemporary New Ruist (Confucian) Philosophies; L.Pfister PART FOUR The Last Buddhist: The Philosophy of Liang Shuming; J.Hanafin Xiong Shili's Metaphysics; N.Yu-kwan.

About the Author

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JOHN MAKEHAM is Reader in Chinese, Centre for Asian Studies, Adelaide University. For most of the last decade he has worked in the area of pre-modern Confucian intellectual history. Between 1993-2001 he studied the Chinese commentary tradition on the Analects from the second to the nineteenth centuries, a period substantially contemporaneous with the rise and decline of scriptural Confucianism (Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects, Harvard Asia Center, 2003). His current research project on contemporary discourse on Confucianism is a direct outgrowth of his work on early periods in Confucian intellectual history. He has also published Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought (SUNY, 1994) and a translation of the Han Dynasty Confucian thinker Xu Gan's (170-217) Balanced Discourses (Yale, 2002).