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Article: Yung Sik Kim. The Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi 1130-1200.(Book Review)
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- China Review International
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- March 22, 2002
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Memoirs series, vol. 235. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2000. xii, 380 pp. Hardcover $30.00, ISBN 0-87169-235-x.
The Southern Song scholar-philosopher Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]) has been an intriguing figure to philosophers East and West for the past century, in part because of his speculations about nature and his observations of natural phenomena. While Shao Yong [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and Cheng Yi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] in the Northern Song had introduced notions regarding observation (in terms of guanwu [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [observing things], fanguan [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] ...