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Images of Human Nature: A Sung Portrait
By (Author) Donald J. Munro
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
181.112
Hardback
336
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
624g
In this volume Donald Munro, author of important studies on early and contemporary China, provides a critical analysis of the doctrines of the Sung Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200). For nearly six centuries Confucian orthodoxy was based on Chu Hsi's commentaries on Confucian classics. These commentaries were the core of the curriculum