Chinese Thought From Confucius to Cook Ding (HB)

Roel Sterckx

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We are often told that the twenty-first century is bound to become China's century. Never before has Chinese culture been so physically, digitally, economically or aesthetically present in everyday life In the Western world. But how much do we really know about its origins and key beliefs, especially compared to the many histories of Western philosophy? How did the ancient Chinese think about the world? In this enlightening book, roel sterckx, one of the foremost experts in Chinese thought, takes us through centuries of Chinese history, from Confucius to Daoism to the legalists. With evocative examples from philosophy, literature and everyday life, he shows us how the ancient Chinese have shaped the thinking of a civilization that is now influencing our own.

Roel Sterckx

Roel Sterckx (born 1969) is a Flemish-British sinologist and anthropologist. He is the Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization at Cambridge University, and a fellow of Clare College. Sterckx attended secondary school at the Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege in Mol, Belgium, and read sinology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1991). He went on to study Chinese philosophy at National Taiwan University before moving to Cambridge (Clare Hall), where he obtained a Ph.D. in Oriental studies (1997). He was a research fellow at Oxford (Wolfson College) and Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona before returning to Cambridge in 2002. He served as Secretary-General of the European Association for Chinese Studies from 2006 to 2012. In 2013 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.

Title	Chinese Thought From Confucius to Cook Ding (HB)
Author	Roel Sterckx
Number of Pages	481
Language	English (US)
Category	Politics History
First Published	OCT 2019