Bücher der Reihe China Academic Library

This diverse collection brings together the English essays, speeches, academic papers and book reviews of Hu Shih, all written between 1919 and 1962, exploring his ideas on such topics as scientific methodology, liberalism and democracy, and social problems.

The content is divided into three sections - addressing the "theory" and "practice" of contemporary Confucianism, as well as how the two relate to each other - to provide readers a more meaningful understanding of contemporary Confucianism and Chinese culture.

This book combines two collections of essays written by the late professor Zuoliang Wang, works that explore the affinity between literatures and peoples, with special attention given to that between Chinese literature and western literature in the 20th century, and which underscore the role of translation therein.

This book is aimed at readers and researchers who are interested in Chinese garden architecture, the rise and fall of Yuanming Yuan and the history of the Qing dynasty. Young-tsu Wong's engaging writing style brings "the garden of perfect brightness" to life as he leads readers on a grand tour of its architecture and history.

This book of dialogues between Guy S. Alitto and "The Last Confucian", Liang Shu-ming covers cultural characteristics of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and reviews Mr. Liang's life and his contact with Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and others.

This book points out that not only has China's economy been in a state of disequilibrium, but it also has issues with enterprises not being under budget constraint. It advocates enterprise reform and upholds the government's leading role in establishing order.

This book collects the work of Zhao Baoxu, a prominent scholar of political science, international political scientist and educator.

Socio-biological Implications in Confucianism

It focuses on the period from after the Opium Wars to the New Culture Movement, as the New Culture Movement can be considered a pivotal phase in the cultural transformation of modern-day China. The New Culture Movement was a revolutionary eruption triggered by the accumulation of all the new qualitative cultural factors since the Opium Wars.

This book reprints an ancient Chinese work from the late Warring States period (3rd century BC) that contains stories and anecdotes exemplifying the carefree nature of the ideal Taoist sage.

This book offers an eyewitness account of China's twenty years of rural reform. It records the successive changes in different types of China's rural economic systems, from rural cooperatives to the people's communes to the household responsibility system.