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Feng Youlan and Twentieth Century China
An Intellectual Biography
Series: - Modern Chinese Philosophy, Volume: 9
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This is an intellectual biography of Feng Youlan [Fung Yu-lan] (1895-1990), one of the preeminent Chinese philosophers of the 20th century. Fengâs life very well captured the vicissitudes of twentieth-century Chinese politics and scholarship. He made his name in the 1930s and â40s with a path-breaking approach to Chinese philosophy. And he was one of the few prominent pre-1949 non-Communist Chinese scholars who attempted to influence Chinese society with prolific publications after 1949. This monograph explores Feng Youlanâs work and the trajectory of changes in Fengâs philosophical outlook against the social and political contexts of Fengâs life from the 1920s to 1990. Fengâs search for a framework of Chinese philosophy that is open and connected to foreign learning, and a framework of self-cultivation that is open to outside ideas, continues to be important goals for Chinese philosophy today.
Xiaoqing Diana Lin, Ph.D. (University of Chicago, 1993), is an Associate professor of history at Indiana University Northwest. She has written on Chinese cultural and intellectual history, including: Peking University: Chinese Scholarship and Intellectuals, 1898â1937 (SUNY, 2005).
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Introduction
Chapter 1 Finding Common Ground for Chinese and Western Philosophy
Chapter 2 Building a Metaphysical System of Philosophy in China, 1930sâ1940s
Chapter 3 Feng Youlan and Dialectical and Historical Materialism, 1930sâ1950s
Chapter 4 From âAbstract Inheritanceâ to Complete Social Contextualization: 1960sâ1970s
Chapter 5 Philosophy as Exploration of New Knowledge
Epilogue: Feng Youlan and Chinaâs Search for Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Finding Common Ground for Chinese and Western Philosophy
Chapter 2 Building a Metaphysical System of Philosophy in China, 1930sâ1940s
Chapter 3 Feng Youlan and Dialectical and Historical Materialism, 1930sâ1950s
Chapter 4 From âAbstract Inheritanceâ to Complete Social Contextualization: 1960sâ1970s
Chapter 5 Philosophy as Exploration of New Knowledge
Epilogue: Feng Youlan and Chinaâs Search for Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century
Bibliography
Index
Upper class undergraduates and graduate students of Chinese history and philosophy; general audience who are familiar with Feng Youlanâs philosophy.