Introduction to Modern Japanese Thought

Author: Wang Qing
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: The late medieval period of Japan was a time of high development and maturity in Japan's feudal society, as well as a period that nurtured the emergence of modern ideas capable of fundamentally overturning the feudal ruling system. Under the interaction of various ideological and cultural trends from China, the West, and Japan, the late medieval Japanese society saw the rise of numerous schools of thought and the flourishing of diverse theories, entering a highly prosperous era in terms of intellectual culture. Currently, research on the history of late medieval Japanese philosophy in Chinese academia remains an academic. Building on a thorough absorption of the prior research achievements of Chinese scholars and referencing relevant works by Japanese scholars, the author of this book has expanded the scope of investigation, breaking through the one-sided focus on Japanese Confucianism in previous Chinese academic studies. By incorporating various philosophical ideas such as late medieval Confucianism, Sekiguchi Shinshū, the thoughts of farmers, Shinto and Kokugaku, Mito School, Rangaku, Yangxue, and late medieval Buddhism into the analytical framework, the author combines case studies with macro-level analysis to produce this new work. It can be said that this book accurately reconstructs the overall picture of the history of late medieval Japanese philosophy.