郭尚兴所著的这本《中国儒学史》是目前我们乃至世界上篇幅至巨的中国儒学通史。本书以弘扬和传播中国传统文化为出发点，紧扣儒学的基本精神，对各个时期儒家对儒学的发展和创新给予系统而又充分的论述，并结合时代背景，客观地从正反两方面进行深入剖析。

郭尚兴所著的这本《中国儒学史》充分吸收国内外儒学研究的新理论、新观点，尤其是改革开放后国内外学者在这一领域所取得的新成果。《中国儒学史》以弘扬和传播中国传统文化为出发点，紧扣儒学的基本精神，对各个时期儒家对儒学的发展和创新给予系统而又充分的论述，并结合时代背景，客观地从正反两方面进行深入剖析。《中国儒学史》对传播和弘扬中国文化具有积极的现实意义。

Foreword

Preface

Abbreviations

Chapter One Introduction

 I.Religious Beliefs Before Confucianism

 II.The Tentative Yin-Yang Theory Before Confucianism

 III.Political Beliefs Before Confucianism

 IV.Philosophical Schools Contemporary with Confucianism

 V.Origins of Confucianism

 VI.Essential Features of Confucian Civilization

Chapter Two Master Kong and the Founding of Confucianism

 I.Introduction

 II.On Heaven and Spirits

 III.On Government by Virtue

 IV.On Rites and Rectification of Names

 V.On Humanity and the Cultivation of One's Virtues

 VI.On the Doctrine of the Mean

 VII.On Knowledge

 VIII.On Education

 IX.The Evolution of Master Kong's Thinking on Rites, Rectification of Names, Humanity and the Mean

 X.Early Explications and Spread of Confucianism by Master Kong's Disciples

Chapter Three The Five Confucian Classics

Chapter Four Divisions and Development of Confucianism During the Warring States Period

Chapter Five The Establishment of the Dominant Position of Confucianism and Its Amalgamtion with Other Thoughts in the Han Dynasty

Chapter Six The Decline of the Orthodox Confudanism and the Rise of Neo.Taoism-During the Period of the Wei-Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties

Chapter Seven The Revival of Confucianism During the Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter Eight Neo-Confudanism During the Northern Song Dynasty I.Introduction

Chapter Nine Development of Neo-Confudanism During the Early and Mid-Southern Song Dynasty

Chapter Ten Zhu xi,Lu Jiuyuan,and the Culminating Development of Neo-Confucianism in the Mid-Southern Song Perion

Chapter Eleven Schools of Utilitarianism in the Eastern Zhejiang and Their Debates with Zhu Xi

Chapter Twelve Neo-Confucianism of the Yuan Dynasty

Chapter Tirteen Neo-Confucianism of the Earyly Ming Period

Chapter Fourteen The Rise of the School of Mind Represented by Wang Shouren and Its Dissemination in the Mid-Ming Dynasty

Chapter Fifteen Criticism of Neo-Confucianism in the Mid-Ming Period

Chapter Sixteen Revival of Neo-Confucianism of the Cheng-Zhu School in the Late Ming Period

Chapter Seventeen The Practical Learning of the Late Ming and Early Qing Period

Chapter Eighteen The Decline of Neo-Confucianism and the Rise of the Han Learning of the Qingg Dynasty

Chapter Nineteen Modern-Script Classicism of the Late Qing Reformers

Chapter Twenty New Neo-Confucianism in the 20th Century

Chapter Twenty-One Confucianism on Today's Horizon

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