Selected links pertaining to Chinese philosophy:
And some links on philosophy in general:
(Note: This is an old list. Some links may be dead.)
Information Hubs
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"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.
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Joseph Adler’s Links for Chinese Religions and Philosophy.
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Hanno Lecher’s Internet Guide for Chinese Studies: Philosophy and Religion. (Last updated in 2008 but still contains many useful links.)
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Charles Muller’s Resources for East Asian Language and Thought.
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Jeff Richey's list of early China links.
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 included the following entries on Chinese thought. A number of new articles have since been added, including survey articles on Chinese metaphysics, epistemology, and language and logic.
- 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)
- Taoism (Chad Hansen)
- 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 included these articles on Chinese philosophy. Again, other articles have since been added.
- 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
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Philpapers.org is a great place to start searching for online articles and research. Here's the Chinese philosophy bibliography page.
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Scott Barnwell has published a thorough, incisive overview of the sources of early "Daoist" thought in three parts: Part I, Part II, and Part III.
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Chad Hansen’s Chinese Philosophy Pages present a range of short essays on topics in classical Chinese philosophy.
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The Warring States Project introduces Bruce and Taeko Brooks’s textual theories and other issues.
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An extensive set of links on Daoism at Hermetica.info.
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Richard Sears's very useful site on Chinese etymology.
E-Books
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Over one hundred classic philosophy e-books are available at Open Culture.
E-Texts
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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.
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Christoph Harbsmeier's elaborate Thesaurus Linguae Sericae "explores the conceptual schemes of pre-Buddhist Chinese on the basis of a corpus of translated texts interlinked with an analytic dictionary."
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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.
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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.
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古籍電子書連線 links to a vast assortment of texts.
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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.
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翰廬 has a wide selection of texts here.
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The Dao is Open site provides e-texts of six versions of the Dàodéjīng.
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Mugitani Kunio’s Sinology text archive
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Burton Watson’s English translation of the Zhuangzi.
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Lionel Giles’s English translation of the Liezi.
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Anne Kinney has posted several texts, with English translations, here. These include a complete translation of the Hanfeizi.
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Search for “Lao Tzu” on this page to find several dozen translations of the Dàodéjīng, including Hansen’s, Henricks’s, and Lau’s.
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Herbert Giles’s Chinese Sketches of 1875 (little to do with philosophy, but fascinating reading).
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Partial results from my incomplete GRF project on textual problems in the Mohist Canons are posted here.
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Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts, a useful site about excavated Chinese texts.
Professional Societies
A number of professional societies related to Chinese thought operate websites.
Philosophy Sites
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A Philosopher's Take: A group blog discussing philosophical ideas as well as the profession of philosophy
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Boston Review: Ideas matter (not a blog, and not strictly about philosophy, but often publishes philosophically rich discussions)
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Certain Doubts: Devoted to matters epistemic
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Crooked Timber (social and political philosophy)
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Crucial Considerations: A Science, Philosophy, Rationality, and Ethics Blog
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Daily Nous: News For and About the Philosophy Profession
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Digressions and Impressions: Interesting posts on a range of issues in philosophy and academic life
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Ethics Etc: A forum for discussing contemporary philosophical issues in ethics and related areas
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Experimental Philosophy (experimental work relevant to philosophy)
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Feminist Philosophers: News feminist philosophers can use
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Flickers of Freedom (action, agency, and free will)
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In Socrates' Wake: A blog on the teaching of philosophy
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Janus Blog: The Virtue Theory Discussion Forum
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Leiter Reports: News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture...and a bit of poetry
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New Art, Philosophy, Politics, Science: A group blog with people from all over the map
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PEA Soup: A blog dedicated to Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia
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The Philosopher's Stone: Robert Paul Wolff
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Practical Ethics: Ethical perspectives on the news
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Prospect Magazine philosophy section
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Public Reason: A blog for political philosophers
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Scientia Salon: philosophy and the natural and social sciences
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The excellent series of informative interviews with philosophers formerly at 3AM Magazine has moved to .
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3 Quarks Daily (not specifically a philosophy blog, but lots of philosophical content)
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Tomkow.com: A philosophical journal
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The View from the Owl's Roost: Nomy Arpaly's working blog
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Warp, Weft and Way: A group blog of Chinese and comparative philosophy
Philosophy Resources
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Episteme Links (extensive links to philosophical resources)
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Philpapers (comprehensive reference to philosophy papers on line)
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Teach Philosophy 101 (extensive material on teaching philosophy effectively)
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Ditext.com (philosophy etexts)
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Extensive list of sites with etexts (at Ditext.com)
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Philosophy videos at the University of Oregon