The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers. Spanning two thousand years of social, intellectual, and political change, the essays in these volumes investigate two central questions through all aspects of Chinese life: what core values sustained this ancient civilization through centuries of upheaval, and in what ways did these values survive in modern times?
Keywords: China, History, Chinese history, Intellectual History, Chinese Intellectual History, Chinese Culture, Chinese Religions, Comparative History
Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780231178600 |
Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: September 2017 | DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231178600.001.0001 |