Resources in Chinese Philosophy

Information Hubs

Daoist Studies is a helpful site maintained by James Miller.

Joseph Adler maintains links to resources on Chinese religions and philosophy here.

Steven Brown has an extensive list of links and other information at Chinese Philosophy Net.

Gene Thursby's Taoism Information Page has links to a wide range of information.

Another extensive source is the Internet Guide for Chinese Studies: Philosophy and Religion, maintained by Hanno Lecher.

Resources for East Asian Language and Thought, edited by Charles Muller, is a very useful site, as is Fabrizio Pregadio's home page, which links to a wide range of resources.

Su Tzu's Chinese philosophy page contains some useful links.


Sites with On-Line Articles

The relevant articles in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy probably provide the most extensive source of information on Chinese philosophy on line. Articles published so far are listed below, along with forthcoming articles. As so you see, the materials published so far all concern classical thought. I hope we will soon see articles on thinkers from later periods as well.

Chinese Philosophy (Kim-chong Chong) (forthcoming)
Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western (David Wong)
Confucius (Jeffrey Riegel)
Daoism (Chad Hansen)
Laozi (Alan Chan)
Mencius (Kwong Loi Shun)
Mohism (Chris Fraser)
Mohist Canons (Chris Fraser)
School of Names (Chris Fraser)

Xunzi (Dan Robins) (forthcoming)
Zhuangzi (Harold Roth)

Another useful source is the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Articles at this site are usually a bit shorter than the Stanford articles, but they cover some topics not yet treated in the latter. As with Stanford, articles will continue to be added to this reference site.

Confucius (Jeff Richey)
Daoism (Ronnie Littlejohn)
Ge Hong (Keith Knapp)
Laozi (Ronnie Littlejohn)
Mencius (Jeffrey Richey)
Neo-Confucianism (John H. Berthrong)
Seng Zhao (Jeffrey Dippmann) (see also the excellent article on Nagarjuna by Douglas Berger)
Wang Bi (Ronnie Littlejohn)
Wang Yangming (Youngmin Kim)
Xunzi (David Elstein)
Zhang Zai (David Elstein)
Zhuangzi (Steve Coutinho)

You can find an overview of Chinese philosophy in MSN Encarta here.

Brief introductions to aspects of Chinese philosophy by Richard Hooker are on line here.

Chad Hansen's Chinese Philosophy Pages present a range of short essays by a distinguished interpreter of classical Chinese philosophy.

Lao Sze-kwang's Lexicon of Confucianism can be found here.

Russell Kirkland has put a series of Study Guides on Asian thought on line here.

Bryan Van Norden's bibliography of readings on Chinese philosophy is becoming dated but is still a useful resource. Also have a look at his course web pages, his "Comments and Corrections to D.C. Lau's Mencius," and his "Translation of Selected Passages from the Mengzi (Mencius)."

The Warring States Project introduces Bruce and Taeko Brooks's textual theories and other issues. Most of this isn't philosophy, but it will certainly get you thinking.


E-Texts

中華文化網 has an extensive set of Chinese philosophy e-texts here. For their other selections, see here.

The Shuhai Wenyuan is a useful digital database of classical Chinese texts hosted by the University of Hawaii.

Academia Sinica, Taiwan, offers a searchable database of Chinese texts here, and 寒泉古典文獻全文檢索資料庫 has another searchable database here.

Steve Angle's Chinese Philosophical Etext Archive offers a range of texts. Be sure to check out his course pages and other resources.

A wide selection of texts is available at this site. Other texts, including many works of literature, can be found here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
   
   
   
   
   

 

 

 

 

 

Last updated: September 2005