A History of Chinese Thought

With concise and penetrating language, Mr. Qian Mu distilled the essence of the ideas of various schools of thought. A leading scholar of Chinese studies, he presents an overview of ancient Chinese scholarship, briefly explaining the intellectual trends and main currents of each era. This helps readers understand how scholarly thought has evolved over the past two thousand years. It also offers modern readers a glimpse of how scholars viewed the intellectual climate of their time seventy years ago, and can be read as a source of reference.