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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457219903321

Autore

Zhang Xuecheng <1738-1801.>

Titolo

On ethics and history [[electronic resource] ] : essays and letters of Zhang Xuecheng / / translated and with an introduction by Philip J. Ivanhoe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8047-7288-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

IvanhoeP. J

HanYu <768-824.>

Disciplina

170.92

Soggetti

History - Philosophy

Electronic books.

China Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; Part II: Essays; 1. On the Dao; 2. On Learning; 3. A Treatise on Teachers; 4. Conventional Convictions; 5. The Difficulty of Being Understood; 6. The Analogy of Heaven; 7. Breadth and Economy; 8. Virtue in an Historian; 9. Virtue in a Litterateur; 10. The Principles of Literature; 11. Distinguishing What Only Seems to Be; Part III: Letters; 1. Letter on Learning to Zhu Cangmei of the Grand Secretariat; 2. Letter on Learning to My Clansman Runan; 3. Reply to Shen Zaiting Discussing Learning; 4. Letter on Learning to Chen Jianting

Appendices: Three Works by Han Yu1. On the Dao; 2. A Treatise on Teachers; 3. Letter in Reply to Li Yi; Notes; Selective Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first collection of Zhang Xuecheng's essays and letters translated into English, offering a rare example of his work on ethical philosophy from the Qing dynasty.