Recommended Bibliography of Chinese Philosophy at Peking University

998, Peking University centennial celebration, Peking University joint school inside and outside Ren Jigai, Ji Xianlin, Qiu Xigui, Zhang Dai Nian, Jin Kemu, Tang Yijie, He Jiuning, Yuan Xingjiu, Qian Liqun, Xie Lang, Lou Yulie, Le Daiyun, Li Yining and other more than 50 famous professors, *** with the students of Peking University should be recommended reading bibliography of 30 kinds of books, 30 kinds of books selected for reading.

Today, I share with you these 60 kinds of bibliography,*** read good books!

30 kinds of books should be read:

1. "Zhouyi"

"Zhouyi" is the source of classical Chinese philosophy.

"Yi is the head of the group of scriptures, the source of the great way", and for the new Taoism as the "three Xuan" of the crown, centralized embodiment of the Chinese people's mode of thinking, values, and other philosophical character.

2. The Classic of Poetry

China's earliest collection of poetry,

Returning to the "world of poetry" and reshaping the spirit of the nation.

Poetry 300, in a word, Si Wu Yi. If you don't learn poetry, you can't speak.

-Confucius

3. Laozi

One of the greatest masterpieces of Chinese history,

hailed as the "King of All Scriptures"

Heaven and earth are unforgiving, and they take everything as ruminants. The sages are not benevolent, and take the people as ruminants.

The Tao Te Ching

The Tao Te Ching, the culmination of Lao Tzu's thought, is like an inexhaustible well, full of treasures, and it is easy to get it by putting down the bucket.

-- Nietzsche

4. The Analects of Confucius

"A book that everyone in China must read.

Not only for the Chinese, but in the future this book,

should become a must-read book for all human beings in the world."

Half of the Analects of Confucius governs the world.

--Zhao Pu, a politician of the Northern Song Dynasty

Seeing the virtuous and thinking of the wise, and seeing the unwise and introspecting.

--"The Analects of Confucius--Li Ren"

5. The Art of War

The sacred text of military science: "He who can win because of changes in the enemy is called a god."

There is no constant method for everything, and strain is the highest.

The book is based on the Song book "Eleven Notes on Sun Tzu", and at the same time refers to the representative research results of various schools.

6. Mencius

"A masterpiece of Confucianism and the peak of traditional prose writing".

Mengzi, a great thinker and educator during the Warring States period, was a representative of the Confucian school. He inherited and developed the ideas of Confucius, and was known as "Confucius and Mencius" together with Confucius. In later times, Mencius was posthumously honored as "Sage Gong" and "Sage Yasheng".

7. Zhuangzi

One of the classics of Taoism,

has a significant position in the history of Chinese thought and culture.

The friendship of a gentleman is as light as water, the friendship of a villain is as sweet as sweet wine; a gentleman is light to be intimate, a villain is sweet to be absolute.

--"Zhuangzi"

The text is oceanic and elegant, and the works of the scholars of the late Zhou Dynasty can not be preceded.

--Lu Xun commented on Zhuangzi's article

8. The Records of the Grand Historian

The first chronicle of Chinese history, which is listed as the first of the Twenty-Four Histories.

The Shiji (史记)

records the history of more than 3,000 years, from the time of the legendary Yellow Emperor to the first four years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (汉武帝太初四年)

. With the later "Book of Han", "Book of the Later Han", "Three Kingdoms" is called "the first four histories".

9. The Tantra

After the Tang Dynasty, the Buddhism of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, nine times out of ten was Zen Buddhism. You just look at a book compiled by the Ming Dynasty, a book of the month, in detail, divided into five sects and seven pages, all started by one person, that is, the Sixth Patriarch Huineng. If Sakyamuni is the "origin" of Buddhism, Huineng is the "sect" of Buddhism.

In the history of Chinese academic thought in later generations, there are two great men, the great influence on Chinese culture, one for the Tang Dynasty Zen Sixth Patriarch Huineng, one for the Southern Song Dynasty Confucian Zhu Xi.

10. "Guwen Guanzhi"

Learn the essence of ancient Chinese prose

The name of the book, "Guwen Guanzhi," means that the collection of essays included in the collection represents the highest level of the literary language, and that the study of the literary language to this point of view. The selected essays start from the pre-Qin Dynasty, down to the end of the Ming Dynasty, reflecting the general outline of the development of prose from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty and the main appearance.

11. The Three Hundred Poems of the Tang Dynasty

"A model of the beauty of Chinese literature".

The poets of the Tang Dynasty, some of them were outspoken in their poetry, pursuing personal freedom and ideals, while others were compassionate and sympathetic, raising their voices for the people of the world. Many of them were defiant and atmospheric, revealing their kindness and justice between the lines.

12. "Three Hundred Song Lyrics Notes"

It is impossible to speak without reading poetry.

Song lyrics is another literary genre after Tang poetry, which is characterized by both literature and music. Culture is the lock of a nation's soul, and language is the key to that lock. The poems we read create the way we speak and think. Song lyrics, together with Tang poetry, constitute the double best of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, containing the important spiritual genes of the Chinese nation.

13. A Dream of Red Mansions

The paper is full of ridiculous words, a handful of bitter tears.

All the authors are obsessed with it, but who understands its flavor?

This book is the first time since the birth of Cheng Yiben that the form of "criticism", in addition to the annotation, proofreading, each attached to the back of the approval, the folder approval. Long engaged in the "Dream of Red Mansions" research and teaching of two generations of scholars to read more than ten years and become.

14. "China's academic history of the last three hundred years"

A book to read 300 years of academic history.

Narrating the evolution of Chinese academics since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the book is intertwined and complicated, with the narrative history of issues, characters (schools), and disciplines, constituting the history of social trends, schools, and disciplines. Originally for the fall of 1923 to the spring and summer of 1924, Liang Qichao at Tsinghua University lectures in the last three hundred years of China's academic history of the course of lectures, after the book *** divided into sixteen lectures.

15. Selected Works of Lu Xun

16. A History of Chinese Philosophy

The first complete and

modern work on the history of Chinese philosophy.

The first complete and modern work on the history of Chinese philosophy, which adopts the form of Western philosophy to explain the reality of Chinese philosophical thought, making traditional Chinese philosophy a modern discipline. The basic framework of this book is generally accepted by the Chinese philosophical history community, and many of its ideas have become definitive in the academic community.

17. Chinese Law and Chinese Society

Explores the basic spirit and main features of ancient Chinese law.

The main features of ancient Chinese law are expressed in the concepts of familism and class. Both are the core of Confucian ideology, and the foundation of Chinese society, and the institutions and social order that Chinese law focuses on maintaining.

18. The Ideal State

Philosophers are the inevitable rulers of the ideal state.

Plato's highest ideal, philosophers should be statesmen and statesmen should be philosophers. Philosophers are not nerds hiding in ivory towers, they should learn to apply and seek to practice. Those who have philosophical mind should have power; those who have power should have philosophical mind.

19. The Divine Comedy

20. Hamlet

A thousand readers, a thousand Hamlets.

Shakespeare belongs not to one age but to all centuries,