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On ethics and history : essays and letters of Zhang Xuecheng / translated and with an introduction by Philip J. Ivanhoe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zhang, Xuecheng, 1738-1801.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- China--Historiography.
- China.
- Zhang, Xuecheng, 1738-1801--Correspondence.
- Zhang, Xuecheng.
- Zhang, Xuecheng, 1738-1801--Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804772884
- 0804772886
- OCLC:
- 589195865
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