The Religious Thought of Chu Hsi.(Review) From: China Review International | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: Woo, Franklin J. | COPYRIGHT 2001 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Julia Ching. The Religious Thought of Chu Hsi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. x, 348 pp. Hardcover $65.00, ISBN 0-19-509189-2.

For reflective people interested in the history of thought in China and East Asia, Chu Hsi (1130-1200) is an important figure to know; according to Wing-tsit Chan, he was "the most influential Chinese philosopher since the time of Confucius (551-479 B.C.) and Mencius (372-289 B.C.?). He was not only the crystallization of the Neo-Confucia...