Chinese Philosophy

Readings in Chinese Women’s Philosophical and Feminist Thought

From the Late 13th to Early 21st Century

Edited and translated by Ann A. Pang-White, University of Scranton, USA This collection gathers original writings on women in China from the Yuan dynasty through to the Republic, when women’s learning blossomed as a result of economic prosperity, the development of commercial printing and the interaction between the East and the West. Selections are made from canonical texts, plays, poetry, novels, essays, and revolutionary writings that illuminate the lived experience of women and the perception of gender. With many texts translated into English for the first time, this reader provides the groundwork needed to understand them.

UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 288 pages PB 9781350046122 • £22.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781350046139 • £70.00 / $95.00 ePub 9781350046146 • £20.69 / $27.35 ePdf 9781350046153 • £20.69 / $27.35 Bloomsbury Academic

Critique, Subversion, and Chinese Philosophy

Sociopolitical, Conceptual, and Methodological Challenges

Edited by Hans-Georg Moeller, University of Macau, China & Andrew K. Whitehead, Kennesaw State University, USA This collection shows how Chinese philosophical discourses unfolded through innovation and the subversion of dominant forms of thinking. It explains how the Daoist tradition provided alternatives to prevailing Confucian master narratives and discusses how in Buddhist theory and practice, the subversion of unquestioned beliefs has been a prime methodological and therapeutic device. By drawing attention to unorthodox voices and subversion as a method, it reveals the diversity and subtlety found in the numerous discourses constituting the history of Chinese philosophy.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 240 pages PB 9781350191402 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350115842 ePub 9781350115866 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350115859 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies

Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, University of Konstanz, Germany

Chinese and Indian Ways of Thinking in Early Modern European Philosophy

The Reception and the Exclusion

Selusi Ambrogio, University of Macerata, Italy This is a study of what happened to the European understanding of China and India between the 17th century and the late 18th-century. It reveals the origin of the Eurocentric understanding of Philosophy as a Greek-European prerogative and highlights how this narrowing and exclusion of non-Western ways of thought was a result of ignorance and personal prejudice. In doing so, it provides a new way of thinking about the place of Asian philosophical traditions.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages PB 9781350191419 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350153554 ePub 9781350153578 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350153561 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies • Bloomsbury Academic

Comparing Husserl’s Phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara in a Multicultural World

A Journey Beyond Orientalism

Jingjing Li, Leiden University, the Netherlands While phenomenology and Yogacara Buddhism are both known for their investigations of consciousness, there exists a core tension between them: phenomenology affirms the existence of essence, whereas Yogacara Buddhism argues that everything is empty of essence (svabhava). How is constructive cultural exchange possible when traditions hold such contradictory views? This book details the process of finding a middle ground between the two traditions, demonstrating how both can survive and thrive together in order to overcome Orientalism.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 288 pages HB 9781350256903 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350256927 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350256910 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

Michael Slote Encountering Chinese Philosophy

A Cross-Cultural Approach to Ethics and Moral Philosophy

Edited by Yong Huang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong By creating a two-way dialogue between philosophers specializing in Chinese philosophy and Michael Slote, a central thinker from the Anglo-American tradition, this volume brings cross-cultural philosophy to life. From his early contributions in ethics, metaethics, philosophy of mind, moral psychology and epistemology to his recent investigations into the relationship between Western philosophy and Chinese philosophy, an international team of scholars of Chinese philosophy cover Slote’s sentimentalism, his understanding of Chinese concepts Yin and Yang and explores the role early Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism can play in his work.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 272 pages PB 9781350184008 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350129849 ePub 9781350129863 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350129856 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Fudan Studies in Encountering Chinese Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic

Chinese Philosophy of History

From Ancient Confucianism to the End of the Eighteenth Century

Dawid Rogacz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland Challenging the Euro-centric misconception that the philosophy of history is a Western invention, this book provides the first systematic treatment of classical Chinese philosophy of history. Dawid Rogacz charts the development from pre-imperial Confucian philosophy of history, the Warring States period and the Han dynasty through to the neoConfucian philosophy of the Tang and Son era and finally to the Ming and Qing dynasties. He provides insight into original texts and the ideas of over 40 lesser-known Chinese philosophers, opening new lines of inquiry and directions for comparative study.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 264 pages PB 9781350215344 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350150096 ePub 9781350150119 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350150102 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies • Bloomsbury Academic