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An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism (review)

An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism (review) Features 39 JeeLoo Liu. An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. xviii, 434 pp. Hardcover $84.95, ISBN 1-4051-2949-2. Paperback $34.95, ISBN 1-4051-2950-6. No one history of the early Chinese "Masters" can meet the needs of every audience. Benjamin Schwartz's The World of Thought in Ancient China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985) has special appeal, I think, to scholars working in the broad humanistic traditions of religious studies and intellectual history. In contrast, A. C. Graham's Disputers of the Tao (Chicago: Open Court Press, 1989) is written from a more distinctively philosophical perspective. To give just two more examples, although neither has written a general history of the period, the works of Mark Lewis and Paul Goldin particularly emphasize the interplay between social history, archaeology, and philology.1 Scholars will sometimes dismiss methodologies other than their own as "uninteresting," as "projecting concepts onto the text," or as making claims that are "improvable." But "interesting," like "delicious," is a matter of taste; all interpretation is "projection" to one degree or another; and as if anything nontrivial were "provable"! So we should not begrudge our colleagues their own methodologies and interests because http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

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Features 39 JeeLoo Liu. An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy: From Ancient Philosophy to Chinese Buddhism. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. xviii, 434 pp. Hardcover $84.95, ISBN 1-4051-2949-2. Paperback $34.95, ISBN 1-4051-2950-6. No one history of the early Chinese "Masters" can meet the needs of every audience. Benjamin Schwartz's The World of Thought in Ancient China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985) has special appeal, I think, to scholars working in the broad humanistic traditions of religious studies and intellectual history. In contrast, A. C. Graham's Disputers of the Tao (Chicago: Open Court Press, 1989) is written from a more distinctively philosophical perspective. To give just two more examples, although neither has written a general history of the period, the works of Mark Lewis and Paul Goldin particularly emphasize the interplay between social history, archaeology, and philology.1 Scholars will sometimes dismiss methodologies other than their own as "uninteresting," as "projecting concepts onto the text," or as making claims that are "improvable." But "interesting," like "delicious," is a matter of taste; all interpretation is "projection" to one degree or another; and as if anything nontrivial were "provable"! So we should not begrudge our colleagues their own methodologies and interests because

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China Review International – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Apr 1, 2008

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