Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol 1: From Earliest Times to 1600
A Academic, School, Nonfiction book. Sources of Chinese Tradition (Unesco Collection of Representative Works. Chinese Series) by William Theodore...
A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, "Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1" has been widely used and praised for almost forty years as an authoritative resource for scholars and students and as a thorough and engaging introduction for general readers. Here at last is a completely revised and expanded edition of this classic sourcebook, compiled by noted China scholars Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom. Updated to reflect recent scholarly developments, with extensive material on popular thought and religion, social roles, and women's education, this edition features new translations of more than half the works from the first edition, as well as many new selections.Arranged chronologically, this anthology is divided into four parts, beginning at the dawn of literate Chinese civilization with the Oracle-Bone inscriptions of the late Shang dynasty (1571-1045...
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A little dense and dull at times, this is nevertheless a good place to start if you want an overview of historical Chinese philosophies (though, since I was just starting, I don't have anything to compare it to). I liked that most of the book was excerpts from original sources, but I got a bit bogged down in all of the manifestations... Good selection of primary documents for research. Sources of Chinese Tradition (Unesco Collection of Representative Works. Chinese Series) by William Theodore De Bary (1960)
