The following is a list of our secondary source readings, some of which will be found in Fronter. Primary source readings are either located in the Fronter room for this course, or linked through the Schedule page, where you will also find all the readings listed for each class.
de Bary, "Neo-Confucianism", in Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, ed. Linsun Cheng, pp. 1576–1579, Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing, 2009
Brokaw, Cynthia, The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China, Princeton: Princeton University Press (Introduction and ch. 3)
Brook, Timothy, "Rethinking Syncretism: The Unity of the Three Teachings and Their Joint Worship in Late-Imperial China", Journal of Chinese Religions 21 (1993) pp. 13-44
Graham, A. C., Two Chinese Philosophers: Ch'êng Ming-tao and Ch'êng Yi-ch'uan, London: Lund Humphries, 1958 (General Introduction)
–––––––, Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China, La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1989 (chapters I.1, II.1, II.3, III.2)
Ivanhoe, Philip J., Confucian Moral Self Cultivation, 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2000 (chapters 1-5)
Johnston, Ian, and Wang Ping, Daxue and Zhongyong, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2012 (General Introduction)
Mabuchi, Masaya, "'Quiet Sitting' in Neo-Confucianism", in Asian Traditions of Meditation, ed. Halvor Eifring, pp. 207-226, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press
Sharf, Robert H., "Mindfulness and Mindlessness in Early Chán", in Meditation and Culture: The Interplay of Practice and Context, ed. Halvor Eifring, pp. 55-75, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015
Shun Kwong-loi, "Wang Yangming on Self-Cultivation in the Daxue", Journal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (2012), pp. 96–113. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6253.2012.01691
Slingerland, Edward, Effortless Action: Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 (pp. 119-130 and 175-216)
S?rensen, Henrik H., "The History and Practice of Early Chan", in Readings of the Platform Sūtra, eds. Morten Schlütter and Stephen F. Teiser, pp. 53-76, New York: Columbia University Press, 2012
Virág, Curie, "Self-Cultivation as praxis in Song Neo-Confucianism", Modern Chinese Religion I (2 vols), eds. John Lagerwey and Pierre Marsone, pp. 1187–1232, Leiden: Brill, 2014
Virág, Curie, The Emotions in Early Chinese Philosophy, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017