Zhu Xi
Selected Writings
Edited and translated by Philip J. Ivanhoe
Author Information
Philip J. Ivanhoe is Distinguished Chair Professor in the College of Confucian Studies and Eastern Philosophy at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea where he is Director of the Sungkyun Institute for Confucian Studies and East Asian Philosophy and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture. He specializes in East Asian philosophy and religion and their potential for contemporary ethics.
Contributors:
Ari Borrell is a bibliographer for Chinese literature at the Modern Languages Association. His research interests focus on the interactions of Buddhist and neo-Confucian elites in the Song dynasty.
Beverly Bossler is Professor of History at University of California, Davis. Her work focuses on gender and social relations in the Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties. Her publications include Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity (2013), and Gender and Chinese History: Transformative Encounters (2015).
Daniel K. Gardner is the Dwight W. Morrow Professor of History at Smith College. He has written extensively on the Confucian and neo-Confucian traditions in China. His books include Learning to Be a Sage: Selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, Arranged Topically (1990), Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects (2003), and Confucianism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2014).
Philip J. Ivanhoe is Distinguished Chair Professor in the College of Confucian Studies and Eastern Philosophy at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea where he is Director of the Sungkyun Institute for Confucian Studies and East Asian Philosophy and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture. He specializes in East Asian philosophy and religion and their potential for contemporary ethics.
Yung Sik Kim is Professor Emeritus of Seoul National University, where he was Professor in the Department of Asian History and the Program in History and Philosophy of Science until he retired in 2013. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1980, and works on various aspects of Confucian scholars' thought and knowledge, in particular their attitudes towards scientific, technical, and occult knowledge. He is the author of The Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi (2000) and Questioning Science in East Asia: Essays on Science, Confucianism, and the Comparative History of Science (2014).
Ellen Neskar is the Merle Rosenblatt Goldman Chair of Asian Studies at Sarah Lawrence College, where she teaches pre-modern Chinese philosophy and history. She specializes in the intellectual and religious history of the Song dynasty.
On-cho Ng is Professor of History, Asian Studies, and Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University, where he also serves as Head of the Department of Asian Studies. He is an intellectual historian of Late Imperial China, who has written extensively on Confucian historiography, hermeneutics, and religiosity.
Hoyt Cleveland Tillman is Professor of Chinese History in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University, and specializes in the history of Chinese thought, especially Confucianism during the Song to Yuan periods. His academic honors include being the first Sinologist to receive the senior research prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2000 and serving as an affiliated researcher at Peking University's Center for Studies of Ancient Chinese History since 2004. In contrast to others who focus on orthodoxy, his English, Chinese, and Korean publications emphasize diversity and alternatives within Confucianism.
Justin Tiwald is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. He has published on classical Confucian, Daoist, and neo-Confucian accounts of moral psychology, well-being, and political authority, as well as the implications of Confucian views for virtue ethics, individual rights, and moral epistemology. His books include Neo-Confucianism, with Stephen C. Angle (2017), Ritual and Religion in the Xunzi, with T. C. Kline III (2014), and Readings in Later Chinese Philosophy, with Bryan W. Van Norden (2014).
Curie Virág is Senior Research Fellow and Co-Project Director in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, and Visiting Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Medieval Studies at Central European University. Her primary interests concern pre-modern Chinese philosophy and intellectual history (Warring States to twelfth century), focusing on the emotions, cognition, and subjectivity. She is actively engaged in cross-cultural and comparative research, and currently co-directs the research project "Classicising Learning in Medieval Imperial Systems: Cross-cultural Approaches to Byzantine Paideia and Tang/Song Xue," funded by the European Research Council. Her published work includes The Emotions in Early Chinese Philosophy.
