Books in the China Academic Library series

This book presents the research achievements of Jin Yuelin, the first logician and a prominent philosopher in China, who founded a new philosophical system combining elements from Western and Chinese philosophical traditions, especially the concept of Tao.

This book explains the basic concepts of the performance management, including the achievement of government goals, management capacity, administrative efficiency and policy effects.

This book introduces traditional and modern aesthetics and arts, comparing the similarities and differences between traditional and modern Chinese aesthetics.

This book is aimed at readers and researchers who are interested in Chinese garden architecture, the rise and fall of Yuanming Yuan and the history of the Qing dynasty. Young-tsu Wong's engaging writing style brings "the garden of perfect brightness" to life as he leads readers on a grand tour of its architecture and history.

This book differs from most others of its kind, by looking at the Hong Kong issue from China's perspective, which in turn mirrors China's own situation. Instead of over-simplifying the issue of Hong Kong or only seeing it as a Chinese regional issue, the book regards it as a central Chinese issue and the key to understanding China.

This book offers an eyewitness account of China's twenty years of rural reform. It records the successive changes in different types of China's rural economic systems, from rural cooperatives to the people's communes to the household responsibility system.

By examining social transformation and political participation theories, this book focuses on the core concept of non-institutional political participation, which is classified into two types: induced participation and imposed participation.

This book reprints an ancient Chinese work from the late Warring States period (3rd century BC) that contains stories and anecdotes exemplifying the carefree nature of the ideal Taoist sage.

This book is about the city of Peiping in China, also known as Beijing and Peking, and a city of great historical significance. The second part explores Peiping as it becomes a national centre, through the Liao Dynasty and the Chin Dynasty, until 1234, and the third part explores how it became the capital of the Chinese empire, until 1911.

Socio-biological Implications in Confucianism

It focuses on the period from after the Opium Wars to the New Culture Movement, as the New Culture Movement can be considered a pivotal phase in the cultural transformation of modern-day China. The New Culture Movement was a revolutionary eruption triggered by the accumulation of all the new qualitative cultural factors since the Opium Wars.

This book collects the work of Zhao Baoxu, a prominent scholar of political science, international political scientist and educator.

This diverse collection brings together the English essays, speeches, academic papers and book reviews of Hu Shih, all written between 1919 and 1962, exploring his ideas on such topics as scientific methodology, liberalism and democracy, and social problems.

This book gathers essays, speeches and academic papers of Hu Shih, revealing insights on scientific methodology, liberalism and democracy, and social problems. Volume 2 mainly covers language reform, which succeeded in both the educational and literary fields.

This book collects essays, speeches and academic papers of Hu Shih, revealing insights on scientific methodology, liberalism and democracy, and social problems. Volume 1 traces the development of Chinese thought and reviews the applied historical methodology.

This book collects the 25 most important articles written by Professor Tang since the 1980s, dealing extensively with issues of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity and Chinese culture.

This book offers a comprehensive account of the great Neo-Confucian Master Cheng I (1033-1107), showing his philosophical ideas in a modern light. It systematically examines Cheng's extensive literature and provides an ingenious interpretation of Cheng's social and political views.

This book offers a comprehensive account of the great Neo-Confucian Master Cheng I (1033-1107), showing his philosophical ideas in a modern light. It systematically examines Cheng's extensive literature and provides an ingenious interpretation of Cheng's social and political views.

The content is divided into three sections - addressing the "theory" and "practice" of contemporary Confucianism, as well as how the two relate to each other - to provide readers a more meaningful understanding of contemporary Confucianism and Chinese culture.