Bin Song’s Debating Transcendence: Creatio ex nihilo and Sheng Sheng has recently been published through Fordham University Press. Please read more to find the description of the book, or scan the QR code on this flyer to access the press’s website and the full book. Additionally, there is a 25% discount code DEBATING25 for purchase of both digital and the physical copies. Continue reading →
Category Archives: Books of Interest
New Book: Valmisa, All Things Act
Mercedes Valmisa’s All Things Act has recently been published through Oxford University Press. Please read more to find the description of the book and see here to access the full book. Continue reading →
Workshop zu Kai Marchals Im Spiegel der All-Einheit
There will be a workshop (in German) on Kai Marchal’s new book on Zhu Xi, Im Spiegel der All-Einheit (details on book here). The Workshop is co-organized by Philippe Brunozzi (TU Dortmund) and Dominik Perler (Humboldt University Berlin). In-person or on-line attendance is encouraged; contact Philippe Brunozzi, philippe.brunozzi@tu-dortmund.de for details. The flyer with more information is here.
Song Reviews Xin, Lure of the Supreme Joy
In the latest issue of the Journal of Chinese Studies, Bin Song has published a review of Xin Conan-Wu’s intriguing 2024 book, Lure of the Supreme Joy: Pedagogy and Environment in the Neo-Confucian Academies of Zhu Xi. For more on the book itself, see the publisher’s site here; for Song’s review, see here.
New Book: Stamatov, Dialogues with Classical Chinese Philosophy
Routledge has recently published Dialogues with Classical Chinese Philosophy by Aleksandar Stamatov. Read more for description of the book and see here to access the full book. Continue reading →
New Book: Jones, How Confucius Changed My Mind
Shambhala Press has published How Confucius Changed My Mind: And What He Can Teach You about the Art of Being Human by Charles B. Jones. For more details, see here.
New Book: Berger, Introducing Chinese Philosophy
Douglas L. Berger, Introducing Chinese Philosophy: From the Warring States to the 21st Century has been recently published through Routledge. The book presents an introductory survey of the major themes, thinkers and texts, philosophical genres and profound insights of the Chinese philosophical tradition. Its coverage ranges from the foundational history of Chinese thought in the 6th–5th centuries BCE up to the present day.
To access the book for further reading, please visit this site.
New Book: Ngo, Unlocking the Treasury: Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China
Lever Press recently published Unlocking the Treasury: Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China by Katherine Ngo. The publication is the first major European study of the Chinese children’s primer Youxue gushi qionglin 幼學故事瓊林 (Treasury of elementary learning) from the Qing dynasty. The study explores the intellectual trends of elementary education in Qing China and design of educational literature for basic literacy, moral development, cultural literary, and examination preparation.
To access the book for further reading, please visit here.
New Book: Green, ed., Doing Metaphysics in a Diverse World
Stephen Green, ed., Doing Metaphysics in a Diverse World: How We Make Sense of Things Across Cultures has been published by Bloomsbury.
In a world increasingly interconnected and fractious, cross-cultural dialogue about metaphysics matters more than ever. Drawing on theories and traditions from China, Japan, the Indic world, pre-colonial Africa, pre-Spanish Meso-America, as well as Islamic and European thought, a team of leading philosophers and historians bring case studies, texts, themes and thinkers of very different worlds into conversation. On the basis of this exceptionally rich and diverse canvas, they reflect on questions of enduring human significance: What is suchness? What do we mean by being, becoming and beyond? What is personhood? How do we name and order our world? How should we live?
For more information, please visit here.
New Book: Tiwald, The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy
The Handbook of Chinese Philosophy has recently been released online by Oxford University Press, with paper copies set to release in August. The handbook collects new work on important texts and figures in the history of Chinese thought. The chapters cover both well-known texts such as the Analects and the Zhuangzi and many of the lesser-known thinkers in the classical and postclassical Chinese tradition. Most of the chapters focus on thinkers or texts in one of three important historical movements. These include classical (“pre-Qin”) Chinese philosophy, Chinese Buddhism, and the Confucian response to Buddhism (“neo-Confucianism” broadly construed). Each chapter presents cutting-edge work on important topics in the Chinese tradition and yet is written for a general philosophical audience. For more information, please see this site, and the Table of Contents follows.