Books by John Makeham

The Treatise on Giving Rise to Faith in the Great Vehicle is one of the most important foundational texts of East Asian Buddhism. This new annotated translation of the Treatise draws on the historical and intellectual contexts of the work's composition and pays close attention to its interpretation in early commentaries.

The "Analects" is one of the most influential texts in human history. This is an analysis of four key works dating from the late 2nd century to the mid 19th century: the commentaries of He Yan, Huang Kan, Zhu Xi and Liu Baonan and Liu Gongmian.

Since the mid-1980s, Taiwan and mainland China have witnessed a resurgence of academic and intellectual interest in ruxue-"Confucianism"-variously conceived as a form of culture, an ideology, a system of learning, and a tradition of normative values. This study shows how ruxue has been conceived in order to assess its achievements.