Chinese Philosophy In Excavated Early Texts

Chinese and US specialists in Chinese philosophy explore what texts written as far back as 350 BCE and discovered over the past three decades reveal about Confucianism and Daoism, the place of these religions in Chinese culture and history, and their development over the centuries. Nine essays consider such aspects as the Tsinghua bamboo strips and ancient Chinese civilization, abdication and utopian vision in the bamboo slip manuscript Rongchengshi, San De and warring state's views on heavenly retribution, and the internal onto-genesis of virtuous actions in the Wu Xing Pian. They are not indexed. Price was converted from euros on 3/17/11. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Chung-ying Cheng is a Taiwanese philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He received his BA in 1956 from National Taiwan University, his MA in 1958 from University of Washington, and PhD in 1964 from Harvard University.

Professor Cheng's research interests are in the areas of Chinese logic, the I-Ching and the origins of Chinese philosophy, Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy, the onto-hermeneutics of Eastern and Western philosophy, and Chan (Zen) philosophy. Recently he has specifically worked on the philosophy of c-management and Confucian Bio-Ethics as they relate to the Chinese tradition, and on how Chinese culture relates to world culture.