TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zhang,Xuecheng
AU  - Ivanhoe,Phillip J.
AU  - Han,Yu
TI  - On Ethics and History: Essays and Letters of Zhang Xuecheng
SN  - 9780804772884
AV  - DS734 
U1  - 170.92 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Redwood City
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - China -- Historiography
KW  - History -- Philosophy
KW  - Zhang, Xuecheng, -- 1738-1801 -- Correspondence
KW  - Zhang, Xuecheng, -- 1738-1801 -- Ethics
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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 Yu -- 1. On the Dao -- 2. A Treatise on Teachers -- 3. Letter in Reply to Li Yi -- Notes -- Selective Bibliography -- Index
N2  - 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
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ER  -