Resource Guide:
Classical Chinese Philosophy
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Philosophy, Chinese
- Chinese Literature
- Kongzi (Confucius)
- Mozi (Mo Tzu)
- Mengzi (Mencius)
- Laozi (Lao Tzu)
- Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)
- Xunzi
- Han Feizi
- Confucian Thought
- Ethics, Chinese
- Virtue Ethics
- Individualism
- Obligation and Duty
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Philosophy East & West
- Asian Philosophy
- Journal of Chinese Philosophy
- Journal of Moral Education
- Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Journal of Religious Ethics
- Asia Journal of Theology
- T'oung Pao
- Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
- Journal of Asian Studies
- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Moral Exemplars in the Analects: The Good Person Is That | BJ 117 .O43 2011 |
| Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy | B 126 .V28 2011 |
| Sagehood: The Contemporary Significance of Neo-Confucian Philosophy | B 127 .N4 A54 2009 |
| Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries | PL 2472 .Z6 M36 2008 |
| Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius | BJ 101 .S56 2007 |
| Confucian Ethics: A Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community | BL 1853 .C66 2004 |
| Xunzi: Basic Writings | B 128 .H68 E5 2003 |
| Chuang-tzu: the Inner Chapters | BL 1900 .C5 E5 2001 |
| Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy | B 126 .R43 2000 |
| Virtue, Nature, and Moral Agency in the Xunzi | B 128 .H7 V57 2000 |