Selected links pertaining to Chinese philosophy:
And some links on philosophy in general:
(All links are functional as of May 2009.)
Information Hubs
- “Warp, Weft, and Way,” a group blog that is the successor to Manyul Im’s Chinese Philosophy blog, hosts many rich discussions of Chinese philosophy and serves as a clearinghouse for information on the state of the field. Good discussions in other places are usually announced on this site.
- Joseph Adler’s Links for Chinese Religions and Philosophy.
- Gene Thursby’s Taoism Information Page.
- James Miller’s Daoist Studies website.
- Hanno Lecher’s Internet Guide for Chinese Studies: Philosophy and Religion.
- Charles Muller’s Resources for East Asian Language and Thought.
- Steven Brown’s Chinese Philosophy Page is now outdated; many of the links no longer work.
- Su Tzu’s Chinese philosophy page is obsolete (no updates since 1996).
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Articles in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy provide some of the most extensive sources of information about Chinese philosophy on line. As of December 2008, the SEP includes the following entries on Chinese thought:
- Chinese Ethics (David Wong)
- Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western (David Wong)
- Confucius (Jeffrey Riegel)
- Daoism (Chad Hansen)
- Laozi (Alan Chan)
- Mencius (Kwong Loi Shun)
- Mohism (Chris Fraser)
- Mohist Canons (Chris Fraser)
- Neo-Taoism (Alan Chan)
- School of Names (Chris Fraser)
- Xunzi (Dan Robins)
- Zhuangzi (Harold Roth)
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Another excellent source is the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which covers many topics not treated in the SEP. As of December 2008, the IEP includes these articles on Chinese philosophy:
- Confucius (Jeff Richey)
- Daoism (Ronnie Littlejohn)
- Dai Zhen (Justin Tiwald)
- Ge Hong (Keith Knapp)
- Guo Xiang (J. Scot Brackenridge)
- Hui Neng (John Thompson)
- Laozi (Ronnie Littlejohn)
- Liezi (Steve Coutinho)
- Mencius (Jeffrey Richey)
- Modern Chinese Philosophy (Yih-Hsien Yu)
- Mozi (Hui-chieh Loy)
- Neo-Confucianism (John H. Berthrong)
- Seng Zhao (Jeffrey Dippmann) (see also the excellent article on Nagarjuna by Douglas Berger)
- Wang Bi (Ronnie Littlejohn)
- Wang Yangming (Youngmin Kim)
- Xunzi (David Elstein)
- Yang Xiong (Andrew Colvin)
- Zhang Zai (David Elstein)
- Zhong Hui (Alan Chan)
- Zhuangzi (Steve Coutinho)
- Zhu Xi (Kirill Thompson)
New articles appearing after I compiled this list can be found here.
Other Online Articles
- MSN Encarta overview of Chinese philosophy.
- Richard Hooker’s introductions to aspects of Chinese philosophy.
- Chad Hansen’s Chinese Philosophy Pages present a range of short essays on topics in classical Chinese philosophy.
- Lao Sze-kwang’s Lexicon of Confucianism.
- Russell Kirkland’s Study Guides on Asian Thought.
- Bryan Van Norden’s bibliography of readings on Chinese philosophy (dated but still useful). Also have a look at his “Comments and Corrections to D.C. Lau’s Mencius” and “Translation of Selected Passages from the Mengzi (Mencius).”
- The Warring States Project introduces Bruce and Taeko Brooks’s textual theories and other issues.
- Paul Goldin has a series of helpful bibliographies here.
- An extensive set of links on Daoism at Hermetica.info.
E-Books
- John Cikoski’s Lexicon of Classical Chinese. An invaluable resource for advanced students of the language.
E-Texts
- The China Academic Digital Associative Library is building a complete set of texts of the Siku Quanshu 四庫全書. You can search for them at the site portal here or through this list.
- The Hong Kong Society of Humanistic Philosophy 香港人文哲學會 provides an extensive archive of Chinese philosophy e-texts, ranging from Pre-Qin texts to Qing dynasty and early twentieth-century works. It includes a large collection of hard-to-find Wei-Jin and Song-Ming texts. See the section entitled “網上中國哲學經典” in the middle of the homepage.
- Donald Sturgeon’s ambitious Chinese Text Project provides a large collection of early texts, in many cases with side-by-side English translations, as well as an integrated dictionary and a database of publications on Chinese philosophy. A very impressive, useful resource.
- 中華文化網 has an extensive set of Chinese philosophy e-texts here. For their other selections, see here. (Note: As of June 2009, these links seem broken.)
- The Shuhai Wenyuan is a digital database of classical Chinese texts hosted by the University of Hawaii.
- The National Palace Museum’s 寒泉古典文獻全文檢索資料庫, a searchable database, is here.
- The “China the Beautiful” page offers another good selection of texts.
- 古籍電子書連線 links to a vast assortment of texts.
- Steve Angle’s Chinese Philosophical Etext Archive offers a range of texts. This is one of the few sites to offer Song, Ming, and later Confucian texts.
- 翰廬 has a wide selection of texts here.
- The Dao is Open site provides e-texts of six versions of the Dàodéjīng.
- Mugitani Kunio’s Sinology text archive
- Burton Watson’s English translation of the Zhuangzi.
- Lionel Giles’s English translation of the Liezi.
- Paul Halsall’s links to English translations of Chinese philosophical texts.
- Anne Kinney has posted several texts, with English translations, here. These include a complete translation of the Hanfeizi.
- Search for “Lao Tzu” on this page to find several dozen translations of the Dàodéjīng, including Hansen’s, Henricks’s, and Lau’s.
- Even more Dàodéjīng translations are available on this page.
- Y. P. Mei’s translation of the Mozi. (This link now seems broken. Mei’s translation is also available through Donald Sturgeon’s site.)
- Herbert Giles’s Chinese Sketches of 1875 (little to do with philosophy, but fascinating reading).
Professional Societies
A number of professional societies related to Chinese thought operate websites.
- The Association of Chinese Philosophers in America (ACPA)
- International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP)
- International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy (ISCWP)
- Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP)
Philosophy Blogs
- Arché blog (University of St. Andrews)
- Certain Doubts: Devoted to matters epistemic
- Crooked Timber (social and political philosophy)
- Ethics Etc: A forum for discussing contemporary philosophical issues in ethics and related areas
- Experimental Philosophy (experimental work relevant to philosophy)
- Flickers of Freedom (action, agency, and free will)
- Garden of Forking Paths: A blog dedicated to agency theory, including related issues in metaphysics, ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of action
- Janus Blog: The Virtue Theory Discussion Forum
- Leiter Reports: News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture…and a bit of poetry
- PEA Soup: A blog dedicated to Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia
- Philosopher’s Digest: Timely reviews of current philosophy articles
- Practical Ethics: Ethical perspectives on the news
- Public Reason: A blog for political philosophers
- Thoughts, Arguments, and Rants (news and issues in the profession, with various arguments and rants)
Philosophy Resources
- Episteme Links (extensive links to philosophical resources)
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Philpapers (comprehensive reference to philosophy papers on line)
- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Teach Philosophy 101 (extensive material on teaching philosophy effectively)
- The Epistemology Page
- Ditext.com (philosophy etexts)
- Extensive list of sites with etexts (at Ditext.com)
