On-Cho Ng

Cheng-Zhu Confucianism in the Early Qing: Li Guangdi (1642-1718) and Qing Learning

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Produktbeschreibung

This first book-length study of the Cheng-Zhu School of Confucianism in the early Qing period explores the thought of Li Guangdi, a powerful official in the court of the Kangxi emperor. On-cho Ng undertakes close readings of Li's ideas of ultimate truths and first principles, while situating them in the context of the intellectual concerns of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century China. Addressing philosophical issues neglected in scholarship on early Qing learning, the author offers a new angle from which to view the Ming-Qing intellectual transition and the formation of early Qing thought. He argues that Cheng-Zhu learning, far from being out of step with the epochal climate of thought because of its putative preoccupation with the ultimate and the transcendent, was actually a dated reflection of, and active contributor to, early Qing thought. By tracing the contour and development of Li Guangdi's thought formulated within the bounds of inherited Cheng-Zhu teachings, this book reveals how philosophic discourses in traditional China were often dynamic, hermeneutic endeavors of reinterpreting and renewing received tradition.

Produktdetails

• Suny Chinese Philosophy and Cu
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780791448816
• ISBN-10: 0791448819
• Artikelnr.: 21785124

Autorenporträt

On-cho Ng is Associate Professor of History at The Pennsylvania State University, and coeditor of Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts, and Hermeneutics, also published by SUNY Press.