Looks at the role of the Hunan First Normal School in fostering a generation of founders and key figures in the Chinese Communist Party.

A philosophical analysis of the work of one of the most iconoclastic thinkers in Chinese history, Li Zhi, whose ethics prized spontaneous expression of genuine feelings.

A unique translation of and commentary on the Laozi, based on the oldest edition of the work.

A wide-ranging exploration of traditional Chinese views of mortality.

New attention and fresh perspectives on the classic, but neglected, text of Daoism, the Liezi.

A fascinating look at Chinese perceptions of the United States and the cultural and political background that informs them.

Explores how Xu Bing and other contemporary Chinese artists use Western ideas within a Chinese cultural discourse.

A consideration of Confucian ethics as a living ethical tradition with contemporary relevance.

Explores the new literary and interpretive milieu that emerged in the years following the decline of China’s Han dynasty.

A wide-ranging consideration of Confucianism for Western readers.

An exploration of Chinese during a time of monumental change, the period after the fall of the Han dynasty.

A cross-cultural work which reinvigorates the consideration of enlightenment.

A much-needed consideration of methodology in comparative philosophy.

A work of and about comparative philosophy that stresses the importance of language in intercultural endeavors.

A vivid portrait of the culture of a provincial military society in China’s early medieval period and its interactions with the southern imperial court.

Explores Xunzi's thought in relation to the early Chinese philosophical context that relied on the natural world.

Explores the development of the Chinese martial arts novel.

An engagement between Confucianism and the philosophy of Richard Rorty.

Brings Chinese Daoist and Confucian thought into conversation with Western process, pragmatic, and naturalist philosophy and theology.

Brings Confucianism and Daoism into conversation with contemporary philosophy and the contemporary world situation.

Explores both the literary features and historical context of poetry written for imperial rulers during China’s early medieval period.

Looks at mourning practices during the Han dynasty to reassess whether filial piety was the overriding model for society and governance in early China.

Shows how John Dewey’s visit to China from 1919 to 1921 influenced his social and political thought.

Presents the intellectual world of early medieval Sichuan through a critical biography of historian and classicist Qiao Zhou.

Explores the early Chinese press, which emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its impact on China’s modernization.