Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century, Vol. 2 by William de Bary (PDF)

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For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic writings and historical documents of the Chinese themselves. Now in its second edition, revised and extended through Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin–era China, this classic volume remains unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, and thought in the world’s largest nation. Award-winning China scholar Wm. Theodore de Bary―who edited the first edition in 1960―and his coeditor Richard Lufrano have revised and updated the second volume of Sources to reflect the interactions of ideas, institutions, and historical events from the seventeenth century up to the present day.Beginning with Qing civilization and continuing to contemporary times, volume II brings together key source texts from more than three centuries of Chinese history, with opening essays by noted China authorities providing context for readers not familiar with the period in question.Here are just a few of the topics covered in this second volume of Sources of Chinese Tradition:• Early Sino-Western contacts in the seventeenth century;• Four centuries of Chinese reflections on differences between Eastern and Western civilizations;• Nineteenth- and twentieth-century reform movements, with treatises on women’s rights, modern science, and literary reform;• Controversies over the place of Confucianism in modern Chinese society;• The nationalist revolution―including readings from Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek;• The communist revolution―with central writings by Mao Zedong;• Works from contemporary China―featuring political essays from Deng Xiaoping and dissidents including Wei Jingsheng.With more than two hundred selections in lucid, readable translation by today’s most renowned experts on Chinese language and civilization, Sources of Chinese Tradition will continue to be recognized as the standard for source readings on Chinese civilization, an indispensable learning tool for scholars and students of Asian civilizations.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: Review If I were asked to recommend only one book for anyone who wishes to know something about Chinese culture, I would name, with a moment of hesitation, this new edition of Sources of Chinese Tradition. — Ying-shih Yü, Gordon Wu 1958 Professor of Chinese Studies and professor of history, Princeton University From the Back Cover This volume contains a chronological table of Chinese history beginning with 2852 B.C. up to A.D. 1849. In addition to presenting the major schools of classical philosophy, this volume discusses yin-yang theories of cosmology and geomancy and the rationale of monarchy and dynastic rule. About the Author Wm. Theodore de Bary (1919–2017) was John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus and provost emeritus of Columbia University. He has written extensively on Confucianism in East Asia, and is coeditor of the first edition of Sources of Chinese Tradition, as well as Sources of Japanese Tradition and Sources of Korean Tradition.Richard Lufrano is assistant professor of Chinese history at the College of Staten Island and the author of Honorable Merchants: Commerce and Self-Cultivation in Late Imperial China. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Ok

⭐As a historian, compilations like this are great to have. Packed with primary sources and good introductions to each source and writing as well as relevant background info on the author(s).

⭐This is one of the great seminal works dealing with Chinese history and culture. It enables English-speaking scholars to have a rare, and in depth glimpse into primary source material from the Middle Kingdom. To anyone working with Asian history, this work is a requisite. Primary-source materials like these, presented in an anthology, allow students to get to know the major events of history first-hand. Much to students’ surprise, the original texts are both interesting, and not that difficult to grasp. Dr. Thomas J. Martin, Asian Studies, SUNY

⭐To study modern Chinese geopolitics we shoud first anderstand Chinese Political Tradition. It helped me to anderstand Wei Yuan’s “Haiguo tuzhi” and it connections with today’s chinese strategy toward Russia, The States, India.

⭐Really good, you can read the original sources of the Chinese tradition. However, I do not recommend the first volume if you are not really interested on difficult-to-understand-old-chinese-wording… This, of course, it is not the fault of the book but mine.

⭐College

⭐Dry academia reading. Had to get it for a class, but it was unfortunately dry for a colorful history.

⭐this book is really great, detailed, eye-opening, and the quality is as great as described!

⭐Liked it even more than the previous work. Especially the sources on the Chinese encounter with the West is incredibly interesting, I think this work is essential to an understanding of modern Chinese History.

⭐good.

⭐(Dies ist eine Rezension der Ausgabe, nicht des Buchinhalts, welcher hervorragend ist.)Ich hatte die von amazon angebotenen Taschenbuchausgabe von de Barys Sources of Chinese Tradition (Vol. II) bestellt, erhalten habe ich stattdessen einen gebundenen Nachdruck durch Lightning Source UK Ltd., nicht die originale Taschenbuchausgabe (mit dem Foto eines gewebten Phönixes), die auf der Abbildung zu sehen ist.Die dunkelblau gebundene Ausgabe hat keinen Schutzumschlag. Der Buchrücken trägt den Aufdruck “de Bary – Srces Chinese Trad. 2e v2”. Die Klebung innen ist etwas fehlerhaft. Die ISBN-Nr. innen im Buch (vorletzte Seite) und auf dem Buchrücken entsprechen einander nicht.Der Inhalt der Ausgabe entspricht ansonsten dem Original, soweit ich es überprüfen konnte. Ich bewerte lediglich mit einem Stern, da ohne Ankündigung eine Fassung zugesendet wird, die nicht der Abbildung des Originales entspricht.

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