Confucian personalities.
By: Edited by Arthur F. Wright and Denis Twitchett. With contributions by Albert E. Dien [and others]
Contributors: Twitchett, Denis Crispin.
Series: Stanford studies in the civilizations of eastern Asia
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
Subjects: Confucius and Confucianism.; China -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [327]-387)
Developed from a research conference organized by the Committee on Chinese Thought of the Association for Asian Studies.
Table of contents: title: Values, roles, and personalities / Arthur F. Wright; title: Problems of Chinese biography / Denis Twitchett; title: Yen Chih-t'ui (531-591+): a Buddho-confucian / Albert E. Dien; title: T'ang literati: a composite biography / Hans H. Frankel; title: Lu Chih (754-805): imperial adviser and court official / Denis Twitchett; title: Feng Tao: an essay on confucian loyalty / Wang Gung-Wu; title: From myth to myth: the case of Yüeh Fei's biography / Hellmut Wilhelm; title: Chu Hsi's political career: a study in ambivalence / Conrad M. Schirokauer; title: Yeh-lü Ch'u-ts'ai (1189-1243): Buddhist idealist and confucian statesman / Igor De Rachewiltz; title: Chia Ssu-tao (1213-1275): a "bad last minister"? / Herbert Franke; title: A fourteenth-century poet: Kao Ch'i / Frederick W. Mote; title: Tung Ch'i-ch'ang (1555-1636): apathy in government and fervor in art / Nelson I. Wu; title: K'ang Yu-wei (1858-1927): his intellectual background and early thought / Richard C. Howard; title: Liao P'ing and the confucian departure from history / Joseph R. Levenson.