MCLC: An Intellectual History of China

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Michael Duke <dukem at mail.ubc.ca>
Subject: An Intellectual History of China
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An Intellectual History of China, Volume One Knowledge, Thought, and
Belief before the Seventh Century
By Ge Zhaoguan, Fudan University; Translated by Michael S. Duke,
University of British Columbia and Josephine Chiu-Duke, University of
British Columbia. Leiden: Brill, 2014. ISBN: 9789004171756 · Hardback
(xvi, 426 pp.) · List price: €150.- / $194.-

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In An Intellectual History of China, Professor Ge Zhaoguang presents a
history of traditional Chinese knowledge, thought and belief to the late
six century CE with a new approach offering a new perspective. It
appropriates a wide range of source materials and emphasizes the necessity
of understanding ideas and thought in their proper historical contexts.
Its analytical narrative focuses on the dialectical interaction between
historical background and intellectual thought. While discussing the
complex dynamics of interaction among the intellectual thought of elite
Chinese scholars, their historical conditions, their canonical texts and
the “worlds of general knowledge, thought and belief,” it also illuminates
the significance of key issues such as the formation of the Chinese world
order and its underlying value system, the origins of Chinese cultural
identity and foreign influences. All interested in the history of
pre-modern Chinese thought based on the latest textual and archaeological
historical materials, including specialist scholars, graduate and
undergraduate students, academic and public libraries, educated laymen.

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