Introduction:What Is Chinese Philosophy 1
Zhouyi:The Starting Point of Chinese Philosophy 7
A Mystical and Profound Classic 8
From Taiji to Eight Trigrams 11
The Philosophy of Zhouyi 14
Chinese Political Philosophy:Pre-Qin Philosophers 19
Confucius(Kongzi):Family Reverence as the Root of Humanity 20
Mencius(Mengzi):Governing the State with Humane Love 29
Laozi:The Great Dao is like Water 36
Zhuangzi:Wandering at Ease without Self 45
Mozi and Other Pre-Qin Thinkers 52
Xunzi's Political Theory 55
Hanfei's Art of Rulership 57
Sunzi's Art of War 59
Chinese Metaphysics:Interpretations of the World from Han to Tang Dynasties 63
Chinese Cosmology in the Han Dynasty 64
The Ontology of Being and Nothingness in Wei-Jin Dynasties 70
Chinese Metaphysics of Emptiness(Sunyata):Buddhism in Sui and Tang Dynasties 80
Chan Buddhism:Enlightening Buddhist Wisdom in Smiling 92
Chinese Epistemology:Song-Ming Philosophers on the Relationship between Mind-heart and Things/events 99
From Han Yu to Zhang Zai 100
Cheng Brothers and the"Luo School" 108
Zhu Xi:Extinguishing Human Desires in Order to Keep Heavenly Li 111
Lu Jiuyuan:The Cosmos Does not Exist without Mind 116
Wang Yangming:Nothing is Outside One's Mind 118
The Dao of Chinese Philosophy:Its Sustainment and Creativity 123
Three Philosophers between Ming and Qing Dynasties 124
Modern Chinese Philosophy as Responses to Western Philosophies 129
Modern Chinese Philosophy:New Confucianism and East-West Comparative Philosophy 135
Hu Shi,Fung Yu-lan,and the Discipline of Modern Chinese Philosophy 136
Xiong Shili and New Confucianism 138
Contemporary East-West Comparative Philosophy 142
Appendix Ⅰ:Table of Key Philosophical Terms 145
Appendix Ⅱ:Timeline of Chinese and Western Philosophies 148
Appendix Ⅲ:Chronological Table of the Chinese Dynasties 153