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Chinese Thought

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PRIMARY SOURCES

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Confucius. The Analects. Translated with an introduction by D. C. Lau. Harmondsworth, U.K., and New York: Penguin, 1979.

Han Fei. Han Fei Tzu Basic Writings. Translated by Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964.

Laozi. The Classic of the Way and Virtue: A New Translation of the Tao-te Ching of Laozi As Interpreted by Wang Bi. Translated by Richard John Lynn. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

——. Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching. Translated with an introduction by D. C. Lau. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1963.

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Mozi. Mo Tzu Basic Writings. Translated by Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963.

Shang Yang. The Book of Lord Shang: A Classic of the Chinese School of Law. Translated by J. J. L. Duyvendak. London: Arthur Probsthain, 1928.

Xunzi. Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works. Translated by John Knoblock, 3 vols. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1988–1994.

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SECONDARY SOURCES

Bloom, Irene, and Wm. Theodore de Bary, eds. Principle and Practicality: Essays in Neo-Confucianism and Practical Learning. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.

Chan, Wing-tsit, ed. Chu Hsi and Neo-Confucianism. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.

De Bary, Wm. Theodore. The Message of the Mind in Neo-Confucianism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

De Bary, Wm. Theodore, and Irene Bloom, comps. Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol. 1. 2nd ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Eno, Robert. The Confucian Creation of Heaven: Philosophy and the Defense of Ritual Mastery. Albany: State University of New York, 1989.

Graham, A. C. Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1989.

Hall, David L., and Roger T. Ames. Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.

Hansen, Chad. A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Interpretation. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Kohn, Livia. Daoism and Chinese Culture. Cambridge, Mass: Three Pines Press, 2001.

——. Laughing at the Tao: Debates among Buddhists and Taoists in Medieval China. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Loewe, Michael, and Edward L. Shaughnessy, eds. The Cambridge History of Ancient China. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Queen, Sarah A. From Chronicle to Canon—The Hermeneutics of the Spring and Autumn according to Tung Chung-shu. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Schwartz, Benjamin I. The World of Thought in Ancient China. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1985.

Yao, Xinzhong. An Introduction to Confucianism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Zhang, Dainian. Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy. Translated and edited by Edmund Ryden. New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 2002.

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Science EncyclopediaScience & Philosophy: Chimaeras to ClusterChinese Thought - The Origin, The Rise Of Rational Thinking, Heaven And Humans, Syncretic Philosophies, Bibliography