Yü Ying-shih Works Series · Historical and Literary Traditions and Cultural Reconstruction

Author: Yu Ying-shih
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: Yu Ying-shih, born in Qianshan, Anhui, in 1930, in Tianjin. He studied at the New Asia College and New Asia Institute of Research from 1950 to 1955, under the tutelage of Mr. Qian Mu. From 1956 to 1961, he studied at Harvard University, under the tutelage of Mr. Yang Lian, and obtained his Ph.D. He has served as a professor at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and Yale University, as well as the president of New Asia College and the vice president of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and as a visiting professor at Princeton University. Currently residing in the United States, he has written numerous works, including Economic and Cultural Exchange Between Han Dynasty and Foreign Countries, History and Thought, Scholarship and Tradition, Modern Interpretations of Chinese Intellectual Tradition, Cultural Criticism and Chinese Sentiment, China in Modern Transformation, Historical Figures and Cultural Crisis, The Scholar and Chinese Culture, A Study of Fang Yizhi's Later Years, On Dai Zhen and Zhang Xuecheng, The Two Worlds of Dream of the Red Chamber, Hu Shih in the History of Chinese Intellectual Thought, A Commentary on the Late Poetry and Prose of Chen Yin-kuo—Including an Examination of His Academic Spirit and Later Years, Still Remembering the Fish Swimming on the Water—Qian Mu and Modern Chinese Scholarship, and On Modern Confucianism.