This course examines the development of the major schools of thought, namely: Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism in traditional China.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able to: Comprehend the traditional Chinese thought, especially Classical Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism in ancient China; Explore the diversity of values, and to gain a better understanding of themselves; Critically think about related issues of the west by comparison through tutorial discussions and term papers; Demonstrate a broader understanding of the history of thoughts, values, and human endeavors of the world as a whole.

Reminder:

*Each student must upload before the deadline of submission a soft copy of the completed assignment to the plagiarism detection engine VeriGuide, at the URL: https://academic.veriguide.org/academic/login_CUHK.jspx

The system will issue a receipt which also contains a declaration of honesty, which is the same as that in http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/p09.htm

The declaration should be signed, and the receipt stapled to a hard copy of the assignment, which should be handed in to the professor before the deadline of submission.

• Hsiao, Kung-Chuan. A History of Chinese Political Thought. Tr. by Frederick Mote. Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1979.
• *Confucius. The Analects. Tr. by D.C. Lau. 2nd ed. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1992.
• *Mencius. Mencius. Tr. by D.C. Lau. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1984.
• *Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching. Tr. by D.C. Lau. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1982.
• Cambridge History of China. Vol.1: The Ch’in and Han Empires. Eds. by Denis C. Twitchett & Michael Loewe. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1986.
• Creel, H.G. Chinese Thought. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1953.
• ———-. What is Taoism? Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1970.
• Fung, Yu-lan. A History of Chinese Philosophy. Tr. by Derk Bodde. Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1952.
• Goldin, Paul R. After Confucius: Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005.
• ———-. The Culture of Sex in Ancient China. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002.
• ———-. Rituals of the Way: the Philosophy of Xunzi. Chicago, Ill.: Open Court, 1999.
• *Mote, Frederick W. Intellectual Foundations of China. 2nd ed., New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989.
• Shun, Kwong-lo. Virtue, Mind and Morality: A study in Mencian Ethics (Mencius, Confucianism, Character Development, China). [Electronic resource] PhD dissertation, Stanford University, 1986.
• ———-. Mencius and Early Chinese Thought. Stanford: Stanford U. Press, 1997.
• ———-, et al., eds. Confucian Ethics: A Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2004.
• Weber, Max. The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism.
  Tr. & ed. by Hans H. Gerth, with an Intruduction by C.K. Yang. New York: Free Press, 1951.

Keywords: Traditional Chinese Thought, Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism, Confucius, Mencius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Han Fei Tzu.

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