A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691019649 ISBN 13: 9780691019642

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1969

Synopsis

A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy is a milestone along the complex and difficult road to significant understanding by Westerners of the Asian peoples and a monumental contribution to the cause of philosophy. It is the first anthology of Chinese philosophy to cover its entire historical development. It provides substantial selections from all the great thinkers and schools in every period--ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary--and includes in their entirety some of the most important classical texts. It deals with the fundamental and technical as well as the more general aspects of Chinese thought. With its new translation of source materials (some translated for the first time), its explanatory aids where necessary, its thoroughgoing scholarly documentation, this volume will be an indispensable guide for scholars, for college students, for serious readers interested in knowing the real China.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This Source Book is devoted to the purpose of providing such a basis for genuine understanding of Chinese thought (and thereby of Chinese life and culture, since the relationship between the two is probably more pronounced in China than in any other country).

About the Author:

Wing-tsit Chan, now Anna R. D. Gillespie Professor of Philosophy at Chatham College, is also Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy Emeritus, Darmouth College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0691019649
• ISBN 13: 9780691019642
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 874