New History of Chinese Philosophy (Revised Edition) Author: Lao Siguang Publisher: Life·Reading·New Knowledge Sanlian Bookstore

Introduction
This book is the most important work of Mr. Lao Siguang, a famous philosopher today, on Chinese philosophy. Through his unique "origin problem research method", he presents the connotation of Chinese philosophy over thousands of years to readers in detail, just like a butcher cutting an ox. The first volume mainly introduces ancient Chinese thought and the doctrines of Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, Legalism, and Names. The second volume mainly introduces the philosophical thought of the center of Han Dynasty cosmology, Wei and Jin metaphysics, and Chinese Buddhist philosophy. The third volume mainly introduces the trend of thought in the late Tang Dynasty and the development of Song and Ming Neo-Confucianism, as well as the philosophical thought in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, the Qianlong and Jiaqing school of thought, and the thought of Dai Zhen. Each chapter has a profound and easy-to-understand explanation, and its content is exactly the deep connotation of Chinese philosophy.
About the Author
Lao Siguang (1927-2012) was born in Changsha, Hunan Province. His real name is Rong Wei, his pen name is Wei Zhai, and his pen name is Siguang. He is an academician of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan and a retired professor of the Department of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He studied at the Department of Philosophy of Peking University in his early years and graduated from the Department of Philosophy of National Taiwan University. After 1949, he taught in Taiwan, Hong Kong and other places, and conducted research at Harvard University and Princeton University in the United States. He was the director of the Department of Philosophy of the Graduate School of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a senior researcher at the Institute of Chinese Culture of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a visiting scholar at Harvard University and Princeton University in the United States, a visiting professor at National Tsing Hua University, National Chengchi University and Soochow University in Taiwan, and a visiting professor at Huafan University in Taiwan. He is well-versed in both Chinese and Western learning, and has written a lot of books, including essays, history, philosophy, and even epigraphic research. Among them, the "New History of Chinese Philosophy" published in 1980 is a masterpiece that explores the history of Chinese philosophy and has become a must-have textbook for students in the literature, history and philosophy departments of Hong Kong and Taiwan. His other works include "The Essence of Kant's Theory of Knowledge", "The Punishment of History", "The Essence of Chinese Culture", "The Direction of China", "The Collection of Si Guang's Early Works", "The Curse and Legislation", "A New Review of the Direction of China's Culture", "Records of Reflection", "Selected Poems of Si Guang" and more than 30 other works.