368 pp. May 1992
cloth, ISBN 978-0-8248-1416-8, $41.00
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philosophy
religion
China
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Confucian Discourse and Chu Hsi's Ascendancy
by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman
"Finely researched.... An extraordinary valuable contribution to the field of Neo-Confucian studies." --China Review International, Fall 1994
A major transformation in thought took place during the Southern Sung (1127-1279). A new version of Confucian teaching, Tao-hsüeh Confucianism (what modern scholars sometimes refer to as Neo-Confucianism), became state orthodoxy, a privileged status which it retained until the twentieth century.Existing studies of the new Confucianism generally depict a single line of development to and from Chu Hsi (1130-1200), the greatest theoretician of the tradition. In this study of unprecedented scope, however, Hoyt Cleveland Tillman offers an integrated intellectual history of the development of Tao-hsüeh Confucianism which for the first time places Chu Hsi within the context of his contemporaries. Tillman's methodological strategy allows a rich, complex picture of the Tao-hsüeh movement to emerge--one that is sure to transform the field of Sung Confucianism.
Hoyt Cleveland Tillman received his Ph.D. in history and East Asian languages at Harvard University. In 2000, he received an Alexander von Humboldt Award. He currently teaches Chinese thought and history at Arizona State University.
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