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- Feng Youlan (romanized as Fung Yu-lan) was a representative of modern Chinese philosophy. Throughout his long and turbulent life, he consistently engaged the problem of reconciling traditional Chinese thought with the methods and concerns of modern Western philosophy.
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Feng Youlan, whose zi (“style”) or courtesy name was Zhisheng, was born on December 4, 1895, in Tanghe County, Henan Province, to an affluent and prominent family. Feng’s father completed the highest level of study required by the Qing dynasty imperial civil service and headed the local Confucian academy, but also maintained a personal library that...
a. A Comparative Study of Life Ideals
In 1923, Feng wrote his doctoral thesis A Comparative Study of Life Ideals. As the title of his thesis suggests, the relationship between Chinese and Western cultures was the focal point of his philosophical thinking. According to Feng, all forms of philosophy fall into three categories: “the philosophy of subtraction,” “the philosophy of augmentation,” and “the middle way.” Philosophers who value the natural world and distain human interference with nature wish to return to a state of innoce...
b. Six Books of Zhengyuan
The so-called Six Books of Zhengyuan includeA New Philosophy of Principle, New Discourses on Events, New Social Admonitions, A New Inquiry into Man, A New Inquiry into the Tao, and A New Understanding of Language. Here, Feng’s approach was strongly constructive, as he intended to carry forward the Chinese philosophical tradition through these publications. Inspired by Neo-Confucian thinkers such as Cheng Yi, and Zhu Xi, Feng called his philosophy the “New Philosophy of Principle” (Xin lixue)....
Feng began work on A History of Chinese Philosophy during the 1920s. Prior to its publication in 1934, the only available modern critical history of Chinese philosophy was Hu Shi’s Outlines of the History of Chinese Philosophy(1919), which was the first attempt to break away from traditional genres of writing about the history of Chinese philosophy...
Views of Feng’s philosophical legacy vary according to cultural context. In China, Feng is considered to be one of the few original philosophers that twentieth-century China produced. Not remembered for his classroom eloquence by his former students, Feng Youlan nevertheless was able to impart his scholarship on, and passion for, Chinese philosophy...
Chen, Derong. Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy: Illustrated with Feng Youlan’s New Metaphysics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011.Chen, Lai. Tradition and Modernity: A Humanist View. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009.Cheng, Chung-Ying, and Nicholas Bunnin, eds. Contemporary Chinese Philosophy. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.de Bary, William Theodore, and others, eds. Sources of Chinese Tradition. 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999-2000.Zhang Lan (simplified Chinese: 张澜; traditional Chinese: 張瀾; pinyin: Zhāng Lán; 1872 – February 1955), courtesy name Biaofang (表方), was a Chinese political activist best known for being the chairman of the China Democratic League from its founding in 1941 until his death in 1955.
Jun 5, 2022 · 1. The meaning behind his name. Young Jet Li – Facebook. Jet Li was born Li Lianjie Yangzhong in Bejing, China, in a town called Hebei. He is the fifth child of Li Qingquan and Zhang Feng Lan. While training with the Beijing Wushu team, he got his nickname, “Jet”, because of his speed and grace.
Mar 30, 2020 · 1. Feng Youlan’s Chinese-English translations. Feng Youlan (1895–1990, also known as Fung Yu-lan) is widely known as a philosopher and educator. However, he also translated some Chinese works into English and constructed an image of Chinese philosophy in his Chinese-English translations.
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Jan 1, 2012 · The New History of Chinese Philosophy (in 7 volumes) written by Professor Feng Youlan or Fung Yulan (1895−1990), with 1.6 million Chinese characters, saw its complete publication in 10 years from 1982 (volume 1) to 1992 (volume 7).
