Li Chih (1527–1602)

Li Chih , the controversial iconoclastic intellectual prodigy of the late Ming, noted for his outspoken criticism of the Confucian tradition and the established social and political order, has elicited much scholarly attention since the turn of the twentieth century. There has been a profusion of literature on many facets of the man: his ancestry, his life, his thought and his writings in various forms of academic publications in Chinese, Japanese and Western languages. They include several lengthy monographs, mainly in Chinese, but the bulk of the scholarly works on Li Chih were published in professional journals. In addition, there were a number of important contributions on Li Chih published as chapters in more specialized monographs or symposium volumes, and yet others as sections of a larger study on Chinese thought and intellectual history. The most important of the latter can be found in Jung Chao-tsu , MING-TAI SSU-HSIANG SHIH (A History of Ming Dynasty Thought; Shanghai, 1941; Taipei, 1962 reprint); Hirose Yutaka , YOSHIDA SHŌIN NO KENKYŪ (A Study on Yoshida Shōin; 2d ed., Tokyo, 1944); Shimada Kenji , CHŪGOKU NI OKERU KINDAI SHII NO ZASETSU (The Breakdown of Modern Thought in China; Tokyo, 1949); Richard G. Irwin, THE EVOLUTION OF A CHINESE NOVEL: SHUI-HU CHUAN (Cambridge, Mass., 1953); Hou Wai-lu , CHUNG-KUO SSU-HSIANG T'UNG-SHIH (A General History of Chinese Thought; Peking, 1960), Bk. IVB; SELF AND SOCIETY IN MING THOUGHT, ed. Wm. Theodore deBary (New York, 1970), and others

Archaeology · Art · China · Criticism · Literature · Political science · Politics · Reprint · Chinese history and philosophy · Classics · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law