Collected Works of Zhu Qianzhi (Vol. 1-10)

Author: Zhu Qianzhi
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Publishing Date: 2002-09-01
Features:
Volume I: Mainly consists of autobiographical accounts and writings on social and political topics, reflecting Professor Zhu's intellectual journey from being a pioneer of the May Fourth Movement to a believer in the Three Principles of the People, and finally to a theorist guided by Marxism. It also serves as an important intellectual resource for the social thought of various historical periods in 20th-century China, from the May Fourth Movement to the Cultural Revolution. Major works include: Autobiography at Age 50, Autobiography at Age 70, Revolutionary Philosophy, National Revolution and World Harmony, (Communism of Great Unity), (Philosophy of Unity), A Sentimentalist's View of the Universe and Life, Practice Theory—A New Development of Marxist Dialectical Epistemology, etc.
Volume II: Main works include: Collected Writings of Qianzhi, Second Collection of Collected Writings of Qianzhi, The Cultural History of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Revolution, History of Chinese Music Literature, etc. This volume contains Professor Zhu's early research on Chinese philosophy, historiography, and Chinese music literature, as well as records of the southern resistance movement during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Volume III and IV: Research on the history of Chinese philosophy. Main works include: Words on Ancient Studies, Philosophy of the I Ching, Problems of Chinese Thought Methods, Philosophy of Zhuangzi, Annotations on the Laozi, Historiography of Chinese Philosophy, Outline of the History of Chinese Philosophy, New Edition of Hu Tan's New Discussions, Li Zhi, etc.
Volume V: Theories on social development—historical philosophy research. Mainly the results of Professor Zhu's studies in Japan in the late 1920s. Major works include: Historical Philosophy, Outlines of Historical Philosophy, Hegel's Historical Philosophy, Comte's Historical Philosophy, Historical School Economics, etc.
Volume VI: Introduction to Modern Historiography, the theoretical achievements of Professor Zhu's advocacy of the modern historiography movement; Philosophy of Culture and Sociology of Culture are works on comparative cultural theory, which develop the studies on world cultural types by the academic masters Toynbee in A Study of History and Spengler in The Decline of the West. Written during the War of Resistance Against Japan, these works primarily use cultural theory to reveal the vitality of Chinese culture and enhance national cohesion and confidence.
Volume VII: Case studies in comparative culture. The Influence of Chinese Philosophy on Europe is Professor Zhu's lifelong masterpiece, first published in early 1940 and supplemented with a large amount of new material after the founding of the People's Republic. This book is the result of Professor Zhu's unremitting efforts to promote the spirit of Chinese culture within a global cultural perspective. Collected Essays on Comparative Culture is a companion volume to Philosophy of Culture and Sociology of Culture. Among them, The Chinese Monk's Discovery of America Before Columbus (first published in the early 1940s as Investigation of Fusang Kingdom) was further elaborated in the 1960s, aiming to highlight the influence of Chinese culture; The Ancient Chinese Music Theory's Influence on Greece also falls into this category; Chinese Nestorianism is Professor Zhu's last monograph, studying the history of Christianity in China, and also belongs to the field of cultural exchange and comparative research.
Volume VIII: Neo-Confucianism in Japan and Ancient and Yangming Studies in Japan, both within the scope of comparative cultural research, are also fruits of Eastern philosophy studies, demonstrating the radiation of Chinese culture.
Volume IX: History of Japanese Philosophy, the result of Professor Zhu's lectures on Eastern philosophy at Peking University in the late 1950s; History of Korean Zen Buddhism, translated from the works of the Japanese Zen master Kukai Higashiguchi.
Volume X: History of Chinese Zen Thought, a Chinese translation of the Zen works of Kukai Higashiguchi.