Chung-Ying Cheng & Nicholas Bunnin 
Contemporary Chinese Philosophy 

Contemporary Chinese Philosophy features discussion of sixteen major twentieth-century Chinese philosophers. Leading scholars in the field describe and critically assess the works of these significant figures.

* Critically assesses the work of major comtemporary Chinese philosophers that have rarely been discussed in English.

* Features essays by leading scholars in the field.

* Includes a glossary of Chinese characters and definitions.

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Notes on Contributors.

Preface: Chung-ying Cheng.

Introduction: Nicholas Bunnin.

Part I: Pioneering New Thought from the West:.

1. Liang Qichao’s Political and Social Philosophy: Yang
Xiao.

2. Wang Guowei: Philosophy of Aesthetic Criticism: Keping
Wang.

3. Zhang Dongsun: Pluralist Epistemology and Chinese Philosophy:
Xinyan Jiang.

4. Hu Shi’s Enlightenment Philosophy: Hu Xinhe.

5. Jin Yuelin’s Theory of Dao : Hu Jun.

Part II: Philosophizing in the Neo-Confucian Spirit:.

6. Xiong Shili’s Metaphysics of Virtue: Jiyuan Yu.

7. Liang Shuming: Easten and Western Cultures and Confucianism:
Yanming An.

8. Feng Youlan’s New Principle Learning and His Histories of
Chinese Philosophy: Lauren Pfister.

9. He Lin’s Sinification of Idealism: Jiwei Ci.

Part III: Ideological Exposure to Dialectical
Materialism:.

10. Feng Qi’s Ameliorism: Between Relativism and Absolutism:
Huang Yong.

11. Zhang Dainian: Creative Synthesis and Chinese Philosophy:
Cheng Lian.

12. Li Zehou: Chinese Aesthetics from a Post-Marxist and
Confucian Perspective: John Zijiang Ding.

Part IV: Later Development of New Neo-Confucianism:.

13. Fang Dongmei: Philosophy of Life, Creativity, and
Inclusiveness: Chengyang Li.

14. Practical Humanism of Xu Fuguan: Peimin Ni.

15. Tang Junyi: Moral Idealism and Chinese Culture: Sin Yee
Chan.

16. Mou Zongsan on Intellectual Intuition: Refeng Tang.

Afterwords.

Recent Trends in Chinese Philosophy in China and the West:
Chung-ying Cheng.

An Onto-Hermeneutic Interpretation of Twentieth-Century Chinese
Philosophy: Identity and Vision: Chung-ying Cheng.

Glossary.

Index.

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Chung-Ying Cheng is a professor of philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Chinese Philosophy. He is also founder of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy.

Nicholas Bunnin is director of the Philosophy Project at the Institute for Chinese Studies at Oxford University. He is chairman of the British Committee of the Philosophy Summer School in China: China Britain Australia.