An Intellectual History of China, Volume One: Knowledge, Thought, and Belief Before the Seventh Century CE

Contents
Chronology of Chinese States and Dynasties
Abbreviations Used in Footnotes and Bibliography
Note on Translation
Author and Translators
Series Editors’ Foreword
Introduction Chinese Intellectual History Writing
	Prologue: The History of Chinese Intellectual History Itself
	1. The History of General Knowledge, Thought and Belief
	2. Between the History of Knowledge and the History of Thought
	3. The Foundational Presupposition of Chinese Thought: “Dao” or the “Way of Heaven”
	4. The Continuity of Intellectual History Emerges
	5. Historical Memory, Intellectual Resources and Reinterpretation
	6. Pictures Where There Are No Pictures: How to Deal with Empty Spaces in Intellectual History
	7. Addition and Subtraction Methods in Intellectual History Research
	8. What Can Be a Resource Material for Intellectual History?
Chapter 1 Tracing the Origins of Chinese Intellectual History in the Three Dynasties (Ancient Times to ca. 6th Century BCE)
	Brief Prologue: Remote Antiquity
	1. Reconstructing the World of Ancient Thought: Traditional Written Documents, Modern Theory, and Archeological Discoveries
	2. The Shang Conceptual System as Recorded in the Oracle Bone Inscriptions
	3. Evolution of Thought as Recorded in the Written Documents and Bronze Inscriptions of the Western Zhou
	4. Chinese Script and Chinese Intellectual History
	5. Ceremonies, Symbols and a Numerological World Order as the Background of Later Intellectual History
Chapter 2 The Hundred Schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period, I (ca. 6th to 3rd Century BCE)
	Brief Prologue: China’s “Axial Age”
	1. General Knowledge and Thought in the Spring and Autumn Period
	2. Continuation and Renewal of the Intellectual Tradition, I: Ru or the Confucians
	3. Continuation and Renewal of the Intellectual Tradition, II: Mo or the Moists
	4. Continuation and Renewal of the Intellectual Tradition, III: Dao or the Daoists
	5. Elite Thought and General Knowledge: Implications of Mantic and Medical Arts in Intellectual History
Chapter 3 The Hundred Schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period, II (ca. 6th to 3rd Century BCE)
	1. Warring States Hundred Schools Contend, I: Cosmic Space and Time
	2. Warring States Hundred Schools Contend, II: Social Order
	3. Warring States Hundred Schools Contend, III: Life of the Individual
	4. Language and Reality: The Warring States Period Disputations on Names
Chapter 4 Intellectual Convergence in the Qin and Han Dynasties, from ca. the 3rd Century BCE to ca. the Mid-2nd Century CE
	Prologue: Coda to the Hundred Schools of Thought Contending
	1. General Knowledge Background and Intellectual Achievement in the Qin and Han Dynasties
	2. Toward a Synthesis of Knowledge and Philosophy: From the Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals to the Huainanzi
	3. Establishment of a State Ideology: From the Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals to the Discourses in the White Tiger Hall
	4. Classics and Apocrypha—The Consequences of Mutual Interaction between General Knowledge and Elite Thought
Chapter 5 Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism from the End of the Eastern Han to the Early Tang Dynasty, I (ca. Mid-2nd to Mid-7th Centuries)
	Prologue: Foreign Influence Enters China
	1. Evolution of Autochthonous Chinese Thought and Learning from Han to Jin
	2. The Mysterious and Profound: A Turning Point of Intellectual History in the Third Century CE
	3. Purification of Daoist Teachings: The Religionization of Daoist Thought, Knowledge and Techniques
Chapter 6 Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism from the Eastern Han to the Tang Dynasty, II
	1. The Transmission of Buddhism to China and Its Significance in Intellectual History, I
	2. The Transmission of Buddhism to China and Its Significance in Intellectual History, II
	3. Buddhist Conquest of China?
	4. Basic Outline of the Mainstream World of Knowledge and Thought in the Seventh Century
Bibliography
Index