Concise History of Confucianism

The Author: Gan Chunsong is a Professor of Philosophy and Doctoral Supervisor at the Department of Philosophy, Peking University. He is currently Dean of the College of Philosophy and Doctoral Supervisor at Nankai University. Professor Gan specializes in studies of Confucian thoughts and classics, modern philosophical thoughts, Chinese political philosophy, and he proposes research progress in the institutionalization of philosophy. His major publications include Institutionalization of Confucianism and Its Disintegration, Institutional Confucianism, and Introduction to Confucianism.The Translator: Yan Mengmeng is an assistant professor of English Literature at Peking University. She received her undergraduate honours degree in English Literature at the University of St Andrews, and was awarded her MA and PhD in English Literature by Durham University. Dr Yan has recently published her monograph, Foreignness and Selfhood: Sino-British Encounters in English Literature of the Eighteenth Century (Routledge, 2022).

• Confucianism: Its Origin.- Pre-Qin Confucianism.- Confucianism of the Han, Wei, and Jin Dynasties.- The Development of Confucianism in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties.- New Confucianism and New Direction for the Development of Confucianism.