Feng Youlan and Twentieth Century China : : an intellectual biography / / by Xiaoqing Diana Lin.

This is an intellectual biography of Feng Youlan [Fung Yu-lan] (1895-1990), one of the preeminent Chinese philosophers of the 20th century. Feng’s life very well captured the vicissitudes of twentieth-century Chinese politics and scholarship. He made his name in the 1930s and ’40s with a path-breaki...

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Superior document:Modern Chinese Philosophy, Volume 9
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Modern Chinese philosophy ; Volume 9.
Physical Description:1 online resource (255 pages)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 Finding Common Ground for Chinese and Western Philosophy
  • 2 Building a Metaphysical System of Philosophy in China, 1930s–1940s
  • 3 Feng Youlan and Dialectical and Historical Materialism, 1930s–1950s
  • 4 From “Abstract Inheritance” to Complete Social Contextualization: 1960s–1970s
  • 5 Philosophy as Exploration of New Knowledge
  • Epilogue: Feng Youlan and China’s Search for Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century
  • Bibliography
  • Index.