Product Description: Used by Classical and Medieval Western schools to teach rhetoric, a chreia is a brief moral story attributed to a famous historical figure. In Late Ming China, the Italian Jesuit Alfonso Vagnone, also named Gao Yizhi, and the Chinese scholar-official Han Yun collaborated on a project to write down 355 chreiai and sayings...read more

Product Description: English summary: Matteo Riccis Lord of Heaven became one of the integral texts of Chinese intellectual tradition, opening the way for a forth school of thought, Confucian Christianity, alongside Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism...read more

Product Description: Liang Shuming (1895-1988) is one of the most important Chinese philosophers in twentieth century China. Generally considered to be a Confucian, and even the last Confucian, the author argues that he was in fact a Buddhist. Liang s thoughts are analysed within the background of the intellectual debates on religion in republican China...read more