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Chang Tsai is one of the three major Chinese philosophers who, in the eleventh century, revitalised Confucian thought after centuries of stagnation and formed the foundation for the neo-Confucian thinking that was predominant till the nineteenth century. The book analyses in depth Chang's views of man, his nature and endowments, the cosmos, heaven and earth, the problems of learning and self cultivation, the ideal of the sage - and how that ideal might be attained. It looks at the intellectual climate of the eleventh century, the assumptions Chinese intellectuals shared, and the problems which concerned them. It describes the triumph of Chang's rivals within the neo-Confucian movement and the subsequent emergence of neo-Confucianism to state orthodoxy in the thirteenth century.

S12/0230 --- S12/0430 --- Philosophy, Chinese --- Chinese philosophy --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Chinese philosophy: Sui and Tang --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Neo-Confucianists: general and Song (including lixue 理學) --- Chang, Tsai --- Philosophy, Chinese. --- Zhang, Zai, --- Chang, Tsai, --- Chang, Chae, --- 장재, --- 张載, --- Hengquxiansheng, --- Heng-chʻü-hsien-sheng, --- 橫渠先生, --- Zhang, Hengqu, --- Chang, Heng-chʻü, --- 張橫渠, --- Zhang, Zihou, --- Chang, Tzu-hou, --- 張子厚, --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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Transmitting Authority investigates the rise and fall of the cultural currency of the Confucian teacher Wang Tong (ca. 584–617), a.k.a. Master Wenzhong, in the five centuries following his death, by examining the textual and social history of the Zhongshuo , which purports to record Wang Tong’s teachings. Incorporating theories and methodologies from textual criticism, the history of the book, and cultural studies, Warner reveals evidence of the Zhongshuo ’s textual fluidity during the Tang and early Song dynasties, and argues that this fluidity attended the shifting terms of the Zhongshuo ’s cultural value for medieval China’s literati culture. In doing so, Warner offers scholars a model for the study of other works whose textual problems and historical significance have hitherto seemed inscrutable.

Wang, Tong, --- Ō, Tsū, --- 王通, --- Wang, Tʻung, --- Wenzhong, --- Wenzhongzi, --- 文中子, --- Wang, Zhongyan, --- 王仲淹, --- Criticism, Textual. --- S12/0420 --- S12/0228 --- S12/0230 --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Other Confucian writers before Zhu Xi (1130-1200) --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Chinese philosophy: Period of Disunity --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Chinese philosophy: Sui and Tang

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This book is a comprehensive study of Liu Tsang-yüan (773-819), a major literary and intellectual figure in Chinese history. The major aspects of Liu's life and work are explored: the social and cultural background of his family, his relationship with the ku-wen prose reforms and new canonical scholarship in the mid-T'ang, his social and political criticism, his views on Confucian doctrine, and his sentiments and reflections regarding the private realm of human life. Its scope goes beyond the 'life and thought' of this principal intellectual figure in its special emphasis on the connections between Liu's thought and mid-T'ang intellectual change, modifying the conventional view that the mid-T'ang Confucian revival led by Han Yü (768-824) and Liu Tsung-yüan was a precursor of Sung Neo-Confucianism. Chen suggests that the mid-T'ang Confucian movement was essentially a revival of an old form of Confucianism and that Liu's was a powerful voice expressing this sentiment. This in-depth study also encompasses a general interpretation of the nature of the T'ang-Sung intellectual transition. Anyone familiar with the intriguing yet elusive Liu Tsang-yüan will find this book fascinating.

Chinese literature --- Philosophy, Confucian. --- History and criticism. --- S12/0230 --- S12/0420 --- S16/0160 --- -Philosophy, Confucian --- Confucian philosophy --- Confucianism --- Philosophy, Chinese --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Chinese philosophy: Sui and Tang --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Other Confucian writers before Zhu Xi (1130-1200) --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works on traditional literature --- History and criticism --- Liu, Tsung-yuan --- -Liu, Tsung-yüan --- 刘宗元 --- 刘宗源 --- 劉宗元 --- 劉鐘元 --- Criticism and interpretation --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Philosophy, Confucian --- Liu, Zongyuan, --- Liu, Tsung-yüan, --- Ryū, Sōgen, --- Yu, Chong-wŏn, --- 柳宗元, --- 유 종원, --- Liu, Hedong, --- Liu, Ho-tung, --- 柳河東, --- Liu, Zihou, --- 柳子厚, --- Liu, Liuzhou, --- 柳柳州, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Arts and Humanities --- History