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Seeing China through Ideas: A Brief Survey of Yu Ying-shih's Historiography
Reexamine history and reality through a historian's eyes
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Ge Zhaoguang: How Does a Historian Become Immortal? Leung Man-tao: Must Chinese Culture Conflict with Modernization? Yang Zhao: The Regrets and Rewards of Following Yu Ying-shih 1. How Do We Define a “Historian”? 2. Moving Longitudinally and Deeply: From the Origins of Chinese Civilization to the Late Qing and Republic | Modern Interpretations of China's Intellectual Tradition 1 3. What Makes a “Great Historian”? Creating Paradigms and Opening Paths | Modern Interpretations of China's Intellectual Tradition 2 4. Transmission across Generations: What Was Yu Ying-shih's “Field”? | Qian Mu and Modern Chinese Scholarship 5. Democracy and Confucianism: How Yu Ying-shih's Historiography Differed from Qian Mu's | Remembering Ripples in the Wind 1 6. Yu Ying-shih's Critique: What Do New Confucianism, Democracy, and Science Have to Do with One Another? | Remembering Ripples in the Wind 2 7. What Is the Method of Intellectual History? | Remembering Ripples in the Wind 3 8. Returning to the Beginning: A Work of Intellectual History Spanning Centuries | Between Heaven and Humanity 1 9. Seeking the Origins of Thought: What Does “Where I Stand Is Chinese Culture” Mean? | Between Heaven and Humanity 2 10. Is “the Unity of Heaven and Humanity” the Axis of Chinese Thought and Culture? | Between Heaven and Humanity 3 11. From “Gods” to “Humans”: Where Did China's Axial Breakthrough Begin? | Between Heaven and Humanity 4 12. Is Returning to the Original Mind the Highest State of “Unity between Heaven and Humanity”? | Between Heaven and Humanity 5 13. What Is the Most Important Spiritual Asset of Chinese Intellectuals? | Essays on the History of China's Intellectual Class 1 14. The Rise of the Intellectual Class: What Historical Situation Did the Shi Face? | Essays on the History of China's Intellectual Class 2 15. What Distinguished the Scholar-Gentry from Commoners? | Essays on the History of China's Intellectual Class 3 16. How Was Ritual Internalized as the Intellectual Class's Collective Identity? | Essays on the History of China's Intellectual Class 4 17. From New Asia College to Harvard: The Beginning of Yu Ying-shih's Eastern Han Research | Views of Life and Death in the Eastern Han 1 18. What Is an Eastern Han “View of Life and Death” in Social History? | Views of Life and Death in the Eastern Han 2 19. Moving from Life to Death, What Was “Subtracted”? | Views of Life and Death in the Eastern Han 3 20. Seeking “Immortality”: Did Han People Value This World More? | Trade and Expansion in the Han Dynasty 1 21. Nurturing Life, Lavish Burial, and the “Three Fates”: How Did Eastern Han People Extend Life's Boundaries? | Trade and Expansion in the Han Dynasty 2 22. Is Dynastic History a Universal Rule of Historical Research? | New Self-Awareness and New Thought among Scholars from Han to Jin 1 23. To Wei-Jin Scholars, Which Mattered More: Moral Character or Learning? | New Self-Awareness and New Thought among Scholars from Han to Jin 2 24. How Did the Turn from “Collective Awareness” to “Individual Awareness” Occur? | New Self-Awareness and New Thought among Scholars from Han to Jin 3 25. Through What Stages Did the Self-Awareness of the Shi Develop? | New Self-Awareness and New Thought among Scholars from Han to Jin 4 26. What Role Did Ritual Teaching Play amid the “Crisis of the Confucian Ethical Order”? | New Self-Awareness and New Thought among Scholars from Han to Jin 5 27. How Do We Define Medieval Chinese History from Wei-Jin to Sui-Tang? | Interpreting Chen Yinke's Late Poetry and Prose 1 28. Chen Yinke's “Three Transformations” in Historiography: A Historian's Intellectual Journey | Interpreting Chen Yinke's Late Poetry and Prose 2 29. Personal Motives in Historical Research: How Does National Identity Reveal Itself? | Interpreting Chen Yinke's Late Poetry and Prose 3 30. Yue Fei, Qin Hui, and the Fall of the Southern Song: Constructing “Zhu Xi's World” | Zhu Xi's Historical World 1 31. What Is “the Fate of Tracing History to Its Sources”? | Zhu Xi's Historical World 2 32. What Is Wrong with Explaining Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism Philosophically? | Zhu Xi's Historical World 3 33. What Is the Relationship between “Confucian Learning” and “Learning of the Way”? | Zhu Xi's Historical World 4 34. Before Zhu Xi, Were the Four Books Not Required Reading for the Civil Service Examinations? | Zhu Xi's Historical World 5 35. How Is East Asian Capitalism Related to Confucian Ethics? | Religious Ethics and the Merchant Spirit in Early Modern China 1 36. In Weber's View, How Did Confucianism Obstruct Capitalism? | Religious Ethics and the Merchant Spirit in Early Modern China 2 37. How Did Song Bianjing Differ from Tang Chang'an? | Religious Ethics and the Merchant Spirit in Early Modern China 3 38. How Did Scholars and Merchants Come Together? | Religious Ethics and the Merchant Spirit in Early Modern China 4 39. Was There No Intellectual Thought in the Qing after Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism? | On Dai Zhen and Zhang Xuecheng 1 40. “Intellectual History, Not Academic History”: Hu Shi's Influence on Yu Ying-shih | On Dai Zhen and Zhang Xuecheng 2 41. How Did Traditional Confucianism Graft on Modern Western Science? | On Dai Zhen and Zhang Xuecheng 3 42. The Crisis of Confucianism and the “Soul” of Evidential Research | On Dai Zhen and Zhang Xuecheng 4 43. The “Hidden-Meaning School” and the “Autobiographical Theory”: Which Dream of the Red Chamber Paradigm Is More Credible? | Two Worlds of Dream of the Red Chamber 1 44. From Evidential Research to Literature, Is There a Third Way to Read Dream of the Red Chamber? | Two Worlds of Dream of the Red Chamber 2 45. Why Did Cao Xueqin Resent Marriage? | Two Worlds of Dream of the Red Chamber 3 46. Were Manchus Even More Severe and Hypocritical than Han Chinese about “Ritual”? | Two Worlds of Dream of the Red Chamber 4 47. What Did the Name Hu Shi Mean to Yu Ying-shih? | Retracing Hu Shi's Journey 1 48. How Was Hu Shi “Forged”? | Retracing Hu Shi's Journey 2 49. How Could “Mr. Science” Grow from Chinese Tradition? | Retracing Hu Shi's Journey 3 50. Why Were Both Intellectuals and Ordinary People Willing to Listen to Hu Shi? | Retracing Hu Shi's Journey 4 51. Are the Oldest Historical Texts More Likely to Be Later Fabrications? | Unspent Talent 1 52. An Admiration Lasting Half a Century | Unspent Talent 2 53. Why Did Yu Ying-shih Write a Biography of Tan Muyu? | Unspent Talent 3 54. How Did Fu Sinian's Historical Standing Surpass Gu Jiegang's? | Unspent Talent; History and Thought 1 55. Where Did “Anti-Intellectualism” in Chinese Political Tradition Come From? | History and Thought 2 56. How Did the Marginalization of Intellectuals Begin? | History and Thought; The Marginalization of Chinese Intellectuals 1 57. “A Complete Historian”: Concern for Reality and Social Responsibility | The Marginalization of Chinese Intellectuals 2, Finale