{"product_id":"cheng-zhu-confucianism-in-the-early-on-cho-ng-9780791448823","title":"Cheng-Zhu Confucianism in the Early Qing: Li Guangdi (1642-1718) and Qing Learning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines the thought of Li Guangdi, an exponent of the Cheng-Zhu school of Confucianism and a powerful statesman during the Qing dynasty.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis first book-length study of the Cheng-Zhu School of Confucianism in the early Qing period explores the thought of Li Guangdi, a powerful official in the court of the Kangxi emperor. On-cho Ng undertakes close readings of Li's ideas of ultimate truths and first principles, while situating them in the context of the intellectual concerns of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century China. Addressing philosophical issues neglected in scholarship on early Qing learning, the author offers a new angle from which to view the Ming-Qing intellectual transition and the formation of early Qing thought. He argues that Cheng-Zhu learning, far from being out of step with the epochal climate of thought because of its putative preoccupation with the ultimate and the transcendent, was actually a dated reflection of, and active contributor to, early Qing thought. By tracing the contour and development of Li Guangdi's thought formulated within the bounds of inherited Cheng-Zhu teachings, this book reveals how philosophic discourses in traditional China were often dynamic, hermeneutic endeavors of reinterpreting and renewing received tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e On-Cho Ng\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791448827\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791448823\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 5.90w x 0.59d","brand":"On-Cho Ng","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48621787775231,"sku":"9780791448823","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cheng-zhu-confucianism-in-the-early-on-cho-ng-9780791448823","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}