Description

Los Angeles: Monumenta Serica at the University of California, 1972. Hardcover, v, 215 pp; 27 cm. Series: Monumenta Serica Monograph Series, XVI. Parallel title in Chinese characters. Includes index. Very good in good dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few 1" or less nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. Moderate overall fading to jacket as well. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Not Ex-library. Presents Yen Yuan's Preservation of Learning (Cun xue bian) in English translation, accompanied by an extensive introduction on Yen's life and thought by Mansfield Freeman. The introduction discusses Yen's biography, educational views, moral cultivation, human nature, and governance, providing essential context for his critiques of Neo-Confucian orthodoxy during the late Ming and early Qing periods. Contents include: Preface; Introduction - Biography of Yen Yuan; Yen Yuan's Thought - Education and Cultivation of Mind, Human Nature, Government and Religion; Bibliographical Note on the Preservation of Learning and Yen's Other Writings; Translation of Yen Yuan's Preservation of Learning - Book I: Follow the Way, Survey of the Teaching Methods of the Scholars, Illustrating Virtue and Showing Love for the People, A Letter to the Honorable Sun Chung-yuan, A Letter to Lu Fu-t'ing of T'ai-ts'ang, Debate on Learning I, Debate on Learning II; Book II: Commentary on Human Nature and Principle I; Book III: Commentary on Human Nature and Principle II; Book IV: Commentary on Human Nature and Principle III; List of Books Quoted; Glossary of Important Chinese Names and Terms; Index.