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Article: The Religious Thought of Chu Hsi.(Review)
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- China Review International
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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Julia Ching. The Religious Thought of Chu Hsi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. x, 348 pp. Hardcover $65.00, ISBN 0-19-509189-2.
For reflective people interested in the history of thought in China and East Asia, Chu Hsi (1130-1200) is an important figure to know; according to Wing-tsit Chan, he was "the most influential Chinese philosopher since the time of Confucius (551-479 B.C.) and Mencius (372-289 B.C.?). He was not only the crystallization of the Neo-Confucian movement that dominated China for 800 years but also the only thinker in the Christian era to influence many phases of Asian life throughout East Asia." [1] It was Chu Hsi who selected the Four ...