Author: Wright, Arthur F., 1913-1976

Buddhism in Chinese history
Date1979
Publish_locationStanford, CA
PublisherStanford University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library, Ricci Institute Library [ASCC]
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
Series
ShelfReading Room, Stacks [ASCC]
Call NumberBL1430.W94 1979
Description144 p., [4] leaves of plates : 8 ill. ; 20 cm.
Note

Buddhism in Chinese history / Arthur F. Wright.
"Based on six lectures presented at the University of Chicago under the joint sponsorship of the Department of Anthropology and The Federated Theological Faculty."
The "Selection of further readings," pp. 129-38, was revised by the author for the 1971 printing.
Bibliography: p. [129]-138.

A copy of the 1971 Taiwanese rpt. of the 1965 Atheneum ed. is in ASCC stacks (BL1430.W94 1971).

SubjectBuddhism--China--History
ISBN0804705461
Confucian personalities
Date1962
Publish_locationStanford, CA
PublisherStanford University Press
CollectionBibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
SeriesStanford studies in the civilizations of eastern Asia
ShelfStacks
Call NumberBL1840.C763 W754 1962
Descriptionx, 411 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
NoteConfucian personalities / Edited by Arthur F. Wright and Denis Twitchett ; With contributions by Albert E. Dien ... [et al.].
Developed from a research conference organized by the Committee on Chinese Thought of the Association for Asian Studies.
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [327]-387).
Contents: Values, roles, and personalities / Arthur F. Wright -- Problems of Chinese biography / Denis Twitchett -- Yen Chih-t'ui (531-591+): a Buddho-confucian / Albert E. Dien -- T'ang literati: a composite biography / Hans H. Frankel -- Lu Chih (754-805): imperial adviser and court official / Denis Twitchett -- Feng Tao: an essay on confucian loyalty / Wang Gung-Wu -- From myth to myth: the case of Yüeh Fei's biography / Hellmut Wilhelm -- Chu Hsi's political career: a study in ambivalence / Conrad M. Schirokauer -- Yeh-lü Ch'u-ts'ai (1189-1243): Buddhist idealist and confucian statesman / Igor De Rachewiltz -- Chia Ssu-tao (1213-1275): a "bad last minister"? / Herbert Franke -- A fourteenth-century poet: Kao Ch'i / Frederick W. Mote -- Tung Ch'i-ch'ang (1555-1636): apathy in government and fervor in art / Nelson I. Wu -- K'ang Yu-wei (1858-1927): his intellectual background and early thought / Richard C. Howard -- Liao P'ing and the confucian departure from history / Joseph R. Levenson.
SubjectChina--Civilization China--Biography Confucius and Confucianism
Seriesfoo 121
LCCN62-16950
Confucianism and Chinese civilization
Date1971
Publish_locationTaibei 台北
PublisherXuanbin chubanshe 玄彬出版社
CollectionRicci Institute Library [ASCC]
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
Series
ShelfDir. Office Gallery North
Call NumberDS727.W7 1971
Descriptionxv, 366 p. ; 21 cm.
NoteConfucianism and Chinese civilization / edited by Arthur F. Wright.
Reprint of the ed. published by Atheneum, New York, in series: Atheneum paperbacks.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-364).
Chinese colophon dated 民國60 [1971].

PART 1: Ideas and Values -- Some Polarities in Confucian Thought / Benjamin Schwartz -- PART 2: Institutitions -- An Analysis of Chinese Clan Rules: Confucian Theories in Action / Hui-chen Wang Liu -- Confucianism and the Chinese Censorial System / Charles O. Hucker -- PART 3: Arts and Letters -- Confucian Elements in the Theory of Painting / James F. Cahill -- T'ang Literati: A Composite Biography Hans H. Frankel -- Traditional Heroes in Chinese Popular Fiction / Robert Ruhlmann -- PART 4: Men and Power -- Sui Yang-Ti: Personality and Stereotype / Arthur F. Wright -- Feng Tao: An Essay on Confucian Loyalty / Gung-wu Wang -- From Myth to Myth: The Case of Yueh Fei's Biography / Hellmut Wilhelm -- PART 5: Protest and Dissent -- Protest Against Conventions and Conventions of Protest / David S. Nivison -- Confucian Eremitism in the Yuan Period / Frederick W. Mote -- PART 6: A Tradition's End -- The Suggestiveness of Vestiges: Confucianism and Monarchy at the Last / Joseph R. Levenson.

SubjectChina--Civilization Confucianism--China--History
Confucianism in action
Date1959
Publish_locationStanford, CA
PublisherStanford University Press
CollectionBibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
SeriesStanford studies in the civilizations of eastern Asia
ShelfStacks
Call NumberBL1840.C763 N585 1959
Descriptionxiv, 390 p. : ill., port. ; 24 cm.
NoteConfucianism in action / Edited by David S. Nivison and Arthur F. Wright, with contributions by Wm. Theodore De Bary ... [et al.].
"Papers ... presented at the 1957 and 1958 conferences sponsored by the Committee on Chinese Thought ... of the Association for Asian Studies."
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [335]-373).
Contents: Introduction / David S. Nivison -- Some common tendencies in neo-confucianism / Wm. Theodore De Bary -- Some polarities in confucian thought / Benjamin Schwartz -- An analysis of Chinese clan rules: confucian theories in action / Huizhen Wang Liu -- The Fan clan's charitable estate, 1050-1760 / Denis Twitchett -- Some characteristics of Chinese bureaucratic behavior / C.K. Yang -- Some classifications of bureaucrats in Chinese historiography / James T.C. Liu -- Confucianism and the Chinese censorial system / Charles O. Hucker -- Ho-shen and his accusers: ideology and political behavior in the eighteenth century / David S. Nivison -- The suggestiveness of vestiges: confucianism and monarchy at the last / Joseph R. Levenson -- The confucian teacher in Tokugawa Japan / John Whitney Hall -- Motoda Eifu: confucian lecturer to the Meiji emperor / Donald H. Shively.
SubjectConfucianism China--Civilization
Seriesfoo 121
LCCN59-7433
Perspectives on the T'ang [唐朝面面觀]
Date1974
Publish_locationTaibei Shi 台北市
PublisherRainbow-Bridge Book Co. 虹橋書店
CollectionRicci Institute Library [ASCC]
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
Series
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberDS749.3.P46 1974
Descriptionviii, 458 p : maps ; 24 cm.
NotePerspectives on the T'ang / edited by Arthur F. Wright and Denis Twitchett.
Reprint. Originally published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 1973.
Papers from a research conference sponsored by the Committee on Studies of Chinese Civilization of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Title in Chinese at head of title page: 唐朝面面觀.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
SubjectChina--History--Tang dynasty, 618-907 China--Civilization--Tang dynasty, 618-907
Studies in Chinese thought
Date1953
Publish_location[Taipei 臺北?]
Publisher---
CollectionRicci Institute Library [ASCC]
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
SeriesComparative studies in cultures and civilizations
ShelfDir. Office Gallery North
Call NumberB126.W7 1953a
Descriptionxiv, 317 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
NoteStudies in Chinese thought / edited by Arthur F. Wright ; with contributions by Derk Bodde ... [et al.].
Reprint. No date, colophon or publisher.
Based on papers presented at a conference held by a subcommittee on Chinese thought attached to the Committee on Far Eastern Studies jointly sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Far Eastern Association.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Harmony and conflict in Chinese philosophy / Derk Bodde -- A reappraisal of neo-Confucianism / W. Theodore de Bary -- The problem of "knowledge" and "action" in Chinese thought since Wang Yang-Ming / David S. Nivison -- "History" and "value": the tensions of intellectual choice in modern China / J.R. Levenson -- Types of symbols in Chinese art / Schuyler Cammann -- Some problems of interpretation / Arnold Isenberg -- Toward a theory of translating / I.A. Richards -- Some reflections on the difficulty of translation / Achilles Fang -- The Chinese language and foreign ideas / Arthur F. Wright.

SubjectChina--Civilization Philosophy, Chinese China--Intellectual life Chinese language--Translating
Seriesfoo 117
LCCN53013533
Sui Dynasty : [The unification of China, A.D. 581-617]
Date1978
Publish_locationNew York
PublisherKnopf
CollectionRicci Institute Library, Ricci Institute Library [ASCC]
EditionFirst Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
Series
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberDS749.2.W74 1978
Description237 p. : ill., maps, port. ; 24 cm.
NoteThe Sui Dynasty : The Unification of China, A.D. 581-617 / Arthur F. Wright.
Bibliography: p. [223]-228.
Includes index.
Cover title includes subtitle: The unification of China, A.D. 581-617.
SubjectChina--History--Sui dynasty, 581-618
ISBN0394491874
LCCN78-54898