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Warmth and Reverence: An Overview of Qian Mu's Thought
Rediscovering what China means
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Ge Zhaoguang: To Understand Qian Mu Is to Understand Traditional China 1. Entering Qian Mu's World and Rediscovering Chinese Culture and History 2. Conservatism and Innovation in Qian Mu's National Historiography 3. “Summoning the Soul of the Homeland throughout His Life” as a Vocation 4. Disorder, Overthrow, and Reconstruction: What Has Chinese Culture Experienced? 5. From Memories of Teachers and Friends to the Great Academic Age of Republican China 6. The Contest between Chinese and Western Learning at Peking University 7. Does China Need “Philosophy”? 8. Remembering Outline of National History and Chen Mengjia 9. How Should One Write? | On the Interpretation of Chinese Writing 10. Was Confucius the Earliest Advocate of Class Equality? | A New Interpretation of the Analects; Essentials of the Analects 11. Was Mencius Naive to Believe Human Nature Is Good? | Essentials of Mencius 1 12. How Does One Cultivate the “Flood-Like Qi”? | Essentials of Mencius 2 13. In an Age of Disorder, Is the Analects a “Book of Answers”? | A New Interpretation of the Analects 1 14. Must Scholarship Always Surpass Its Predecessors? | A New Interpretation of the Analects 2 15. Why Did Qian Mu Insist That Zhuangzi Preceded Laozi? | Distinguishing Zhuangzi and Laozi 1 16. Are Older Ideas Necessarily More Elevated? | Distinguishing Zhuangzi and Laozi 2 Extra | Yang Zhao: Am I Blindly Following Qian Mu's Claim That Zhuangzi Preceded Laozi? Extra | The Ambition and Paradox of Qian Mu's Historical Research 17. Zhuangzi's Curiosity: How Should Humans Face the Unknowable? | Distinguishing Zhuangzi and Laozi 3 18. Evidence for the Necessity of “Zhuangzi before Laozi” in Qian Mu's Thought | Distinguishing Zhuangzi and Laozi 4 19. Were the Hundred Schools of Thought Clearly Divided? 20. Annotating Zhuangzi in an Age of Decline: What Was Qian Mu Defending? | Collected Notes on Zhuangzi 21. Qian Mu vs. Liang Qichao: The True Face of “Chinese Academic History over the Past Three Centuries” | Part 1 22. Was Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism Once an Opposition Movement? | Chinese Academic History over the Past Three Centuries 2 23. How Did the Relationship between Scholarship and Reality Change from Han to Qing? | Chinese Academic History over the Past Three Centuries 3 24. Qian Mu: I'll Write What Liang Qichao Left Out! | Chinese Academic History over the Past Three Centuries 4 25. A Clear Eye: How to Face the National Heritage amid the Western Tide | Chronology of Pre-Qin Philosophers 1 26. Does the Year of Confucius's Birth Matter? | Chronology of Pre-Qin Philosophers 2 27. Was “Mozi” Not Actually Surnamed Mo? | Chronology of Pre-Qin Philosophers 3 28. What Gave Qian Mu Grounds to Challenge Sima Qian? | Chronology of Pre-Qin Philosophers 4 29. From Origins to Outcome: The Causes and Consequences of the Hundred Schools' Debates | Chronology of Pre-Qin Philosophers 5 30. Was Qian Mu's Devotion to Textual Research Merely an Attempt to Be Original? | Chronology of Pre-Qin Philosophers 6 31. Qian Mu's Grand Project: Reconstructing the Network among the Hundred Schools | Chronology of Pre-Qin Philosophers 7 32. Was Kang Youwei Credible as an Intellectual Leader? | Chronological Biography of Liu Xiang and Liu Xin 1 33. How Did Qian Mu Challenge Kang Youwei, the “Master Detective” of Textual Research? | Chronological Biography of Liu Xiang and Liu Xin 2 34. “The Winner Is King, the Loser a Bandit”: How Do We Judge Historical Truth? | Chronological Biography of Liu Xiang and Liu Xin 3 35. How Was a Monumental History Written amid War? | Outline of National History 1 36. What Use Is Writing History in a National Crisis? | Outline of National History 2 37. What Is a View of History That Can Be Summed Up in One Sentence? | Outline of National History 3 38. “Deep Knowledge Brings Deep Love”: How Should We Regard Our Own History? | Outline of National History 4 39. What Kind of Historical Narrative Answers the Needs of Its Age? | Outline of National History 5 40. Beyond Darkness and Despotism, What Else Does Chinese History Contain? | Outline of National History 6 41. Qian Mu vs. Feng Youlan: How Should We Study the History of Chinese Philosophy? | Outline of National History 7 42. How Does Qian Mu Differ from Historians Today? | Outline of National History 8 Yang Zhao's Message to Graduates: Make the Effort “Not to Play the Tune of Your Contemporaries” 43. What Is the Historical Conception of Time? | The Spirit of Chinese History 1 44. How Did Qian Mu View Marxist Economic Determinism? | The Spirit of Chinese History 2 45. Did Modern China's Illness Begin with the Imperial Examination System? | The Spirit of Chinese History 3 Extra | Leung Man-tao × Yang Zhao: In a Changed World, Why Read Qian Mu Today? 46. A Remedy Drawn from History: Qian Mu's Prescription for China 47. How Should We Read the Three-Typeface Edition of Outline of National History? | Part 9 48. Can Myths and Legends Be Treated as History? | Outline of National History 10 49. Why Did Qian Mu Discuss the Spring and Autumn Period without Mentioning Its “Five Hegemons”? | Outline of National History 11 50. “Religion of Conscience” and “Religion of Asceticism”: How Did Qian Mu Reclassify Pre-Qin Thinkers? | Outline of National History 12 51. Why Did China Develop Civil Government? | Outline of National History 13; Introduction to Chinese Cultural History 52. Through What Stages Did Civil Government Take Shape? | Outline of National History 14; Gains and Losses of Chinese Political Institutions 1 53. Are “Feudalism” and “Despotism” Mutually Contradictory? | Gains and Losses of Chinese Political Institutions 2 54. How Did Wang Mang's Usurpation Consolidate Imperial Autocracy? | Outline of National History 15 55. Why Do Culture and Cultural Spirit Matter to Chinese History? | Outline of National History 16; The Spirit of Chinese History 4 56. What Roles Did Northern and Southern Aristocratic Clans Play in Wei-Jin History? | Outline of National History 17 57. Looking Back through History, Who Was Ahead—China or the West? | Methods of Chinese Historical Research 1 58. The Cyclical Method: Qian Mu Teaches You How to Write a General History | Methods of Chinese Historical Research 2 59. Social History: How Are Chinese and Western “Societies” Alike and Different? | Methods of Chinese Historical Research 3 60. Economic History: What Went Wrong with Wang Anshi's Reforms? | Methods of Chinese Historical Research 4; Outline of National History 18 61. How Can We Understand the Southward Shift of Economic and Cultural Centers? | Outline of National History 19 62. “The South Advances as the North Retreats”: Finding Causes through General History | Outline of National History 20 63. Rediscovering “National Learning” as Western Knowledge Moved East | Introduction to National Learning 1 64. From Evidential Research to the New Culture Movement: Did Republican-Era Scholarship Grow Ever More Radical? | Introduction to National Learning 2 65. Comparing Chinese, Indian, and Western Cultures | Introduction to National Learning 3; Essays on Chinese Intellectual History 1 66. Are There Fundamental Differences between Chinese and Western Cultures? | Introduction to National Learning 4; Essays on Chinese Intellectual History 2 67. Opposing Peking University: The “Nanjing Higher Normal” School That Should Not Be Forgotten | Introduction to National Learning 5 68. Does One's View of Life Have Anything to Do with Science? | Introduction to National Learning 6 69. National and Western Learning: What Position Did Qian Mu Defend? | Introduction to National Learning 7 70. From “Not Very Patriotic” to “Despising One's Country”: How Can Patriotism Be Preserved? | Introduction to National Learning 8 71. What Is Moral Spirit? Beyond Advantage and Harm, Right and Wrong | Essays on Chinese Intellectual History 3 72. The “Complete Person” Is One Who Practices the Laws of Life for a Lifetime | Essays on Chinese Intellectual History 4 73. What Do Daoism and Anarchism Have in Common? | Essays on Chinese Intellectual History 5 74. Zhuangzi and Epicureanism: How Can We Attain Lasting Happiness? | Essays on Chinese Intellectual History 6 75. Buddhist Thought: What Language Can Name a World of Constant Change? | Essays on Chinese Intellectual History 7 76. How Should We View the “Human World”? Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Western Thought | Essays on Chinese Intellectual History 8 77. Studying Chan Buddhism: Where Did Hu Shi and D. T. Suzuki Go Wrong? | Essays on Chinese Intellectual History 9 78. Should History Emphasize “Events” or “People”? | Essays on Chinese Intellectual History 10; New Essays on National History 79. From “No-Self” to “Self”: How Did Song Neo-Confucianism Shape Painting? | Essays on Chinese Intellectual History 11 80. How Can “No-Self” Express the Human Mind? A New Ideal in Song Literati Painting | Essays on Chinese Intellectual History 12 81. A “Great” Late Work: Why Did Qian Mu Value Zhu Xi So Highly? | New Case Studies on Zhu Xi 1 82. Does Citing Others Necessarily Sacrifice Originality? | New Case Studies on Zhu Xi 2 83. “Principle and Qi”: What Forces and Laws Govern the World? | New Case Studies on Zhu Xi 3 84. The Integrity of Zhu Xi's Theory: How Do the Mind-Nature and Principle-Qi Doctrines Complement Each Other? | New Case Studies on Zhu Xi 4 85. Cultivating the Mind: How Can One “Follow the Heart's Desires without Overstepping the Bounds”? | New Case Studies on Zhu Xi 5 86. Connecting Principle-Qi with Mind-Nature: What's Wrong with the Label “Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism”? | New Case Studies on Zhu Xi 6 87. Historical Achievement: Zhu Xi as the Great Synthesizer of Song Confucianism | New Case Studies on Zhu Xi 7 88. Essays, Poems, and Books: Must Neo-Confucians Disdain Literature? | New Case Studies on Zhu Xi 8 89. Blind Eyes, Clear Mind: Understanding China Better through East-West Comparison | Blind Reflections in Late Learning 1 90. Whole and Part: How Did Qian Mu Range across Sources in Comparing China and the West? | Blind Reflections in Late Learning 2 91. What Can the Successes and Failures of Qian Mu's Late Thought Teach Us about “Telling China's Story Well”? | Blind Reflections in Late Learning 3, Finale