An Intellectual History of China, Volume Two / / Zhaoguang Ge.

• Superior document: Brill's Humanities in China Library ; 12
• VerfasserIn: Zhaoguang, Ge,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Humanities in China Library ; 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 pages).
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Tang Dynasty Thought I: From Unity to Intellectual Crisis (ca. Mid-7th to Mid-10th Centuries CE) /; Tang Dynasty Thought II: From Unity to Intellectual Crisis (ca. Mid-7th to Mid-10th Centuries CE) /; From Song to Ming: The Establishment of a New Tradition I (Mid-10th Century to the End of the 16th Century) /; From Song to Ming: Establishing a New Tradition II /; From Ming to Qing I: From Tianxia, “All under Heaven,” to the “Ten Thousand States” (End of the 16th to the End of the 19th Centuries) /; From Ming to Qing II: Chinese Intellectual World in the 18th and 19th Centuries /; Epilogue: China in 1895: The Symbolic Significance of Intellectual History /; Bibliography /; Index /
• ISBN: 9004281347
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Zhaoguang Ge.

A history of traditional Chinese knowledge, thought and belief from the seventh through the nineteenth centuries with a new approach that offers a new perspective. It appropriates a wide range of source materials and emphasizes the necessity of understanding ideas and thought in their proper historical contexts. Its analytical narrative focuses on the dialectical interaction between historical background and intellectual thought. While discussing the complex dynamics of interaction among the intellectual thought of elite Chinese scholars, their historical conditions, their canonical texts and the “worlds of general knowledge, thought and belief,” it also illuminates the significance of key issues such as the formation of the Chinese world order and its underlying value system, the origins of Chinese cultural identity, foreign influences, and the collapse of the Chinese world order in the 19th century leading toward the revolutionary events of the 20th century.