History of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 2: The Period of Classical Learning from the Second Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D

by Yu-lan Fung, Derk Bodde

Overview

Since its original publication in Chinese in the 1930s, this work has been accepted by Chinese scholars as the most important contribution to the study of their country's philosophy. In 1952 the book was published by Princeton University Press in an English translation by the distinguished scholar of Chinese history, Derk Bodde, "the dedicated translator of Fung Yu-lan's huge history of Chinese philosophy" (New York Times Book Review). Available for the first time in paperback, it remains the most complete work on the subject in any language.


Volume I covers the period of the philosophers, from the beginnings to around 100 B.C., a philosophical period as remarkable as that of ancient Greece. Volume II discusses a period lesser known in the West—the period of classical learning, from the second century B.C. to the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691020228
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	08/21/1983
Series:	Princeton Library of Asian Translations
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	816
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Fung Yu-lan is generally recognized as China's leading historian of Chinese philosophy.