History of Chinese Philosophy

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History of Chinese Philosophy

中国哲学史

From the Sages of Antiquity to Contemporary Thought

Martin Woesler

Hunan Normal University

European University Press, 2026

Table of Contents

PART I: THE AGE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS

Chapter 1: Prologue — The Nature of Chinese Philosophy

Chapter 2: Pre-Philosophical Foundations — Cosmology, Divination, and the Yijing

Chapter 3: Confucius and the Founding of the Ru Tradition

Chapter 4: Mozi and the Mohist Challenge

Chapter 5: Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Daoist Philosophy

Chapter 6: Mencius, Xunzi, and the Development of Confucian Philosophy

Chapter 7: Legalism, the School of Names, and Other Pre-Imperial Schools

PART II: IMPERIAL ORTHODOXY AND ITS CHALLENGERS

Chapter 8: Han Dynasty Confucianism and the Establishment of Orthodoxy

Chapter 9: Xuanxue — The "Dark Learning" of the Wei-Jin Period

PART III: THE BUDDHIST TRANSFORMATION

Chapter 10: The Arrival and Sinification of Buddhism

Chapter 11: Sui-Tang Philosophy — Buddhism at Its Height

PART IV: NEO-CONFUCIANISM AND LATE IMPERIAL THOUGHT

Chapter 12: Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism I — The Rationalist Wing

Chapter 13: Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism II — The Idealist Wing

Chapter 14: Qing Dynasty Philosophy I — Evidential Research and Critique

Chapter 15: Qing Dynasty Philosophy II — The Late Qing Crisis

PART V: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY

Chapter 16: The Destruction of the Old and the Search for the New

Chapter 17: New Confucianism — The Creative Transformation of Tradition

Chapter 18: Marxist Philosophy in China and Mao Zedong Thought

Chapter 19: Philosophy in the PRC I — Marxist Orthodoxy

Chapter 20: Philosophy in the PRC II — The Reform Era and Beyond

Chapter 21: Philosophy in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone World

PART VI: BRANCHES OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY

Chapter 22: Chinese Logic, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Language

Chapter 23: Chinese Ethics

Chapter 24: Chinese Political Philosophy

Chapter 25: Chinese Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

PART VII: PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS AND GLOBAL DIALOGUE

Chapter 26: Daoism as Philosophy and Religion

Chapter 27: The Buddhist Philosophical Tradition in China

Chapter 28: Conclusion — Chinese Philosophy in Global Dialogue

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