Literary and Historical Traditions and Cultural Reconstruction: A Series of Works by Yu Ying-shih

Author: Yu Ying-shih
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Publish Date: 2004-11-02
Features: Yu Ying-shih, born in Qianshan, Anhui, in 1930, in Tianjin. He studied at the New Asia College and the 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 guidance 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 the New Asia College and the vice president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and as a visiting professor at Princeton University. He currently resides in the United States. His works include Economic Exchange Between China and the Outside World in the Han Dynasty, History and Thought, Scholarship and Tradition, Modern Interpretations of Chinese Intellectual Tradition, Cultural Review 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—With a Discussion of His Academic Spirit and Later Years, Still Remembering the Fish That Flew on the Water—Qian Mu and Modern Chinese Scholarship, and On Modern Confucianism.