resources
Research Resources for
Confucian Studies
Links to Primary Sources
In Chinese:
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Academia Sinica’s online searchable
database in Chinese with all 13 core texts.
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http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/ftmsw3
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The Chinese Philosophical Etext
Archive at the Wesleyan University--featuring not only the Four Books in Chinese, but also large portions of Xunzi,
Mozi, Guanzi, and the writings of Zhou Dunyi, Zhang Zai, Zhu Xi,
Wang Yangming, and Dai Zhen.
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http://sangle.web.wesleyan.edu/etext/index.html
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A completely searchable database in Chinese
containing all the classics and more.
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http://210.69.170.100/s25/index.htm
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Shuhai Wenyuan from the Philosophy Department at the University of Hawaii. It
provides many Pre-Qin texts with full links from each character to
dictionaries and explanations of the terms.
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http://www.shuhai.hawaii.edu/
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong's page on the Guodian texts. The most
comprehensive on the internet.
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http://bamboo.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/
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Donald Sturgeon's Chinese Text Project.
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http://chinese.dsturgeon.net/index.html
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Many of the central texts, featuring
the Analects in more than 20 languages.
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http://www.confucius.org/main01.htm
Ø The
resource page from the Research Center for Confucian Studies, run by National
Central University in Taiwan.
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http://www.ncu.edu.tw/~phi/confucian/
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The Hong Kong Society of Humanistic Philosophy. Complete texts from various
"schools" organized chronologically.
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http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~hkshp/
In
English:
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The Four Books and Five
Classics translated by James Legge.
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/
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Charles Muller's translation of the
Four Books and the Dao De Jing.
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http://www.hm.tyg.jp/~acmuller/fiveclassics.htm
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Michael Kalton's translations of Yi T'oegye's 10 Diagrams on Sage Learning.
Compete with Chinese text and the full text of Kalton's 1988 book "To Become a
Sage".
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http://faculty.washington.edu/mkalton/contents_webpage.htm
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Joseph Adler's Translation of Zhou Dunyi's
Tongshu with Zhu Xi's commentary.
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http://www2.kenyon.edu/depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Writings/Tungshu1.htm
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The complete ShiJing with English translation.
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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/chinese/shijing
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Charles Muller's Translation of a Confucian-Buddhist debate in 14th century
Korea.
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http://www.acmuller.net/jeong-gihwa/index.html
Directories
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The most highly trafficked Chinese
site on Confucianism. Hundreds of articles by contemporary Chinese scholars on
a wide variety of topics, updated daily.
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http://www.confucius2000.com
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DMOZ Open directory on Confucianism.
Links to 50 of the most popular websites dealing with Confucian studies. Most
are rather introductory, but it also gives access to numerous electronic
versions of the classics. There is also a directory on Neo-Confucianism.
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Philosophy/Eastern_Philosophy/Confucianism/
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The Internet Guide for Chinese Studies sponsored by the University of
Heidelberg. Links to 22 of the best on-line resources with full annotation.
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http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/igphil.htm
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Similar to Confucius2000, but not as
popular, yet still provides numerous articles in Chinese of contemporary
relevancy to Confucianism.
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http://www.confuchina.com/
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China's Guoxue website.
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http://confucianism.com.cn/zhexue/
Foundations and
Organizations
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The Society for Asian and
Comparative Philosophy serves to bring together Western and Asian
philosophers, or those interested in comparative philosophy for a mutually
beneficial exchange of ideas. They host a yearly conference, and the website
posts other related conference dates, as well as calls for papers.
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www.sacpweb.org/
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Home page for the Center of
Confucian Studies sponsored by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The
website posts the structure of the organization as well as current and future
projects.
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http://www.rih.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/rih/confucian.html
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Home page for the Center for the
Study of East Asian Civilizations sponsored by Huang Junjie and National
Taiwan University. The Center has four research areas (East Asian Confucian
Studies, East Asian Education and Examinations, Taiwan Confucian Studies and
Educational Culture, and East Asian Texts and Documents), and the website
provides a general update as well as a few links to pertinent information.
o http://www.eastasia.ntu.edu.tw/
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Home page for the Association of
Asian Studies--a scholarly organization open to all persons interested in
Asia. They hold an annual meeting involving scholarly presentations, and panel
discussions involving all aspects of Asia. The AAS also publishes the
Journal of Asian Studies. Their website features a 'viewpoint' area where
members are encouraged to write in and express their opinion on contemporary
issues.
o http://www.aasianst.org/
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Home page for the American Academy
of Religion. It's mission is to promote "ongoing reflection upon and
understanding of religious traditions, issues, questions, and values".
Confucianism is one of the branches of study. They have an annual conference,
and publish the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Of
particular importance is their "Profession" area of the website, which
features career information (you have to be a member to access this), and
their listing of religion syllabi submitted by college level instructors.
o http://www.aarweb.org/
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Home page for the International
Society for Chinese Philosophy. Established by Cheng Chong-ying and dedicated
to uniting those involved in study and research on Chinese Philosophy. The
ISCP sponsors an international conference every few years, and promotes
distribution of the Journal of Chinese Philosophy.
o http://iscp-online.org/
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Home page for the
Society for the Study of Chinese Religions.
They publish the
Journal of Chinese Religions
and offer a mailing/discussion list involving various academic interests.
o Webpage
has moved.
Graduate Programs
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A list of about a hundred graduate
programs in Asian Philosophy and Religion. Helpful for those looking into
graduate school.
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http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism/GradStudies.htm
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A listing of Chinese Studies/East
Asian Departments with links to about 60 schools.
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http://www.umass.edu/wsp/reference/links/depts.html
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An up to date listing of all the
universities and colleges in China with links to their websites.
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http://www.campusprogram.com/universities/China.html
Bibliographies
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Professor John Berthrong's
bibliography of Western sources for Confucian studies. Over 50 pages of
bibliographical information on books pertaining to Confucian Studies.
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(in pdf).
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Professor Bryan Van Norden's bibliography--organized chronologically,
annotated with links to buy the books immediately.
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http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/bibliography.html
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Benjamin Elman's list of resources for doing work in Chinese Historiography.
Complete with links to bibliographies for primary texts, translations,
dictionaries, geographical aids, and more.
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http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/
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Paul Goldin maintains several bibliographies on topics such as the Guodian and
Shanghai finds, gender and sexuality in Pre-Modern China, translations of the
classics into Western languages, and Ancient China.
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http://paulrgoldin.com/
Discussion Groups
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Yahoo has 3 discussion groups centered around Confucian Studies- Confucius (30
members), Confucianism (16 members), and Confucius-list (53 members). The
boards vary in activity, but there are a couple of posts per day between the
three.
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http://groups.yahoo.com/
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Beliefnet is one of the largest online communities for religious dialogue.
They have dozens of discussion boards, on a variety of religious topics. The
forum on 'Confucianism' averages a handful of posts per week.
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http://www.beliefnet.com/boards/discussion_list.asp?boardID=439
Other Helpful Sources
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A helpful series of online Chinese
dictionaries.
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http://www.chinalanguage.com/
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Professor Lao Sze-kwang's Lexicon of
Confucianism. Search by character or pinyin for definitions of terms,
individuals, and other concepts related to Confucianism. Results are in
Chinese.
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http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/ConfLex/
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The Shuowen Jiezi.
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(in
Word format--zipped)
Of course we are
always looking for more sources. Feel free to contact us with what you find
useful- ConfucianStudies@gmail.com
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