Song Dynasty Neo-Confucianism Three Books with Annotations

Author: Qian Mu
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: This book is Qian Mu's reading notes on three Song Dynasty Neo-Confucian texts—Liu Yin's Collected Interpretations of Zhu Xi's Four Books in Essence (compiled in the Yuan Dynasty), Zhou Lianxi's The Book of Ability, and the Record of Near Thoughts (compiled by Zhu Xi and Lü Donglai)—focusing on elucidating the common principles of Neo-Confucianism. It concisely analyzes how Neo-Confucianism interprets, inherits, and develops the traditional Confucian thought of Confucius and Mencius. The book also includes four essays that explore the essence and core of Chinese culture and thought in an accessible manner.