Article: The Message of the Mind in Neo-Confucianism.

This book presents W. T. deBary's account of the development of certain aspects of Neo-Confucianism, particularly ideas associated with the label hsin hsueh (Learning of the Mind) and their relation to what he terms orthodoxy from the fifteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. It thus picks up more or less where his earlier work, Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy and the Learning of the Mind-and-Heart (1981), left off in early Ming. There he focused on key ideas as they came to be accommodated and even co-opted by governments in Southern Sung, Yuan, and early Ming as what deBary calls "an official orthodoxy." In Message of the Mind he pursues his inquiry into the ...

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