1st Edition

Genres of Chinese Intellectual Thought

By Liu Ning Copyright 2026
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the forms through which Chinese intellectual thought is expressed. It systematically addresses the crucial question of how Chinese thought is articulated according to different conventions and examines the historical interplay between literary genres and philosophy in China. In premodern China, language and thought are deeply intertwined. Pre-modern Chinese thought has a... Read more

1. Masters Monographs from the Han through the Tang  2. Formation and Development of the Discourse (lun)  3. Interactions between Genres: Classics and Masters, Commentaries and Monographs  4. The Song Dynasty: “Modeling on the Sage” and Neo-Confucian Genres  5. The Modern Transformations of Intellectual Literary Genres

Biography

Liu Ning is a research fellow and a doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), who was formerly a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. Her primary research focuses on ancient Chinese literature and the history of academic thought.