Description: A history of traditional Chinese thought with a new perspective, emphasizing contextualization and the complex dynamics between intellectual thought and its historical situations. It illuminates the significance of the Chinese world order, its underlying value system, the origins of Chinese cultural identity and foreign influences.
Review Quotes: "This is a coherent, erudite, undogmatic, thoughtful account of a vast and complex subject by a distinguished and widely read senior professor of history at Fudan, one of China's premier universities."
- C. Schirokauer, Columbia University, in Choice (September 2014).
"Professor Ge's wide-ranging study is a rare effort, standing alongside earlier landmarks of Chinese intellectual history such as Fung Youlan 馮友蘭's History of Chinese Philosophy and Kung-chuan Hsiao 蕭公權's History of Chinese Political Thought... the book is an accomplished translation into English of Ge's original Chinese text, with all its citations and complexities of language, among them the use of various philosophical and religious terms whose rendition into English has to be both consistent and readable."
- Peter Harris, Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies (June 2017).
"While discussing the complex dynamics of interaction among the intellectual thought of elite scholar... it also illuminates the significance of key issues such as the formation of the Chinese world order and its underlying value system, the origins of Chinese cultural identity and foreign influences."
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