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"This book is the first comprehensive study in a Western language of Liu Tsang-yuan (773-819), a major literary and intellectual figure in Chinese history. The major aspects of Liu's life and work are explored: the social and cultural background of his family, his relationship with the ku-wen prose reforms and new canonical scholarship in the mid-T'ang, his social and political criticism, his views on Confucian doctrine, and his sentiments and reflections regarding the private realm of human life." "The scope of this survey goes beyond the "life and thought" of this principal intellectual figure in its special emphasis on the connections between Liu's thought and mid-T'ang intellectual change. This study offers a new interpretation of the origins of the T'ang-Sung intellectual tradition. Through a comparison of Liu's ideas to those of other major Confucian thinkers, Jo-shui Chen modifies the conventional view that the mid-T'ang Confucian revival led by Han Yu (768-824) and Liu Tsung-yuan was a precursor of Sung Neo-Confucianism. He suggests that the mid-T'ang Confucian movement was essentially a revival of an old form of Confucianism and that Liu's was a powerful voice expressing t

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Author

Jo-shui Ch̕en

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511571411

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Social Science, Political Science

Rating

4.67 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13