December 26, 2020
by Steve Angle
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My review of Daniel Bell and Wang Pei’s book Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World (Princeton, 2020) has been published in Ethics; see here. The review ends as follows: …Perhaps a different approach … Continue reading
November 24, 2020
by Steve Angle
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Jiang WU has reviewed John Makeham, ed., The Buddhist Roots of Zhu Xi’s Philosophical Thought (Oxford, 2018) in the latest Journal of Chinese Religions; see here. One excerpt: The current volume under review is thus a welcome step towards reevaluating the … Continue reading
June 22, 2020
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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2020.06.17 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews Li Zehou, A History of Classical Chinese Thought, Andrew Lambert (tr., intr.), Routledge, 2020, 353pp., $160.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780367230128. Reviewed by Bin Song, Washington College It … Continue reading
May 26, 2020
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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2020.05.15 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews Lin Ma and Jaap van Brakel, Beyond the Troubled Water of Shifei: From Disputation to Walking-Two-Roads in the Zhuangzi, SUNY Press, 2019, 283pp., $32.95 (pbk), ISBN … Continue reading
April 30, 2020
by Steve Angle
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The May 2020 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions is now online at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/42207. Among other things, it contains a review of Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D’Ambrosio, Genuine Pretending: On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi by Stephen C. Walker.
March 4, 2020
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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2020.02.11 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews Amy Olberding, The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning Modern Civility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2019, 183pp., $29.95 (hbk), ISBN 9780190880965. Reviewed by Andrew Lambert, … Continue reading
August 18, 2019
by Steve Angle
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The most recent issue of the Journal of Asian Studies has reviews of three books of interest to readers of this blog: Curie Virag reviews Michael Nylan, The Chinese Pleasure Book (Zone Books, 2018) Yunte Huang reviews Haun Saussy, Translation as … Continue reading
July 29, 2019
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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2019.07.20 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews Sungmoon Kim, Democracy After Virtue: Toward Pragmatic Confucian Democracy, Oxford University Press, 2018, 255pp., $74.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780190671235. Reviewed by Kenneth Winston, Harvard University As Asian … Continue reading
May 29, 2019
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Here is a link to the online-first publication of a symposium on Michael Ing’s The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought (the print issue is due out in July in Res Philosophica): https://www.pdcnet.org/resphilosophica/onlinefirst Here is a link to Julianne … Continue reading
April 10, 2019
by Steve Angle
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Jim Behuniak has published a review in Dao — currently “Online First” — of Ted Slingerland’s new book, Mind and Body in Early China: Beyond Orientalism and the Myth of Holism (OUP, 2019). The full review is available (I believe; this … Continue reading
