Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectual Life in the Chunqiu Period, 722-453 B.C.E.

by Yuri Pines

This ambitious work focuses on the world of Chinese thought during the Chunqiu (Springs and Autumns) period (722-451 B.C.E.), the two and a half centuries directly preceding and partly overlapping the time of Confucius, China's single most influential thinker. Ideas developed by Chunqiu statesmen and thinkers formed the intellectual milieu of Confucius and his disciples and contributed directly to the intellectual flowering of the Zhanguo (Warring...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824823966
• ISBN13: 9780824823962
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.0"