Zhu Xi’s World of Thought

Almost one-third of this Chinese volume is added material to expand and revise a 1996 Chinese translation of a revised version of Tillman’s "Confucian Discourse" and Chu Hsi’s "Ascendancy" (Hawaii, 1992). Tillman expended so much energy on the original English book and especially on the subsequent revised and expanded Chinese versions because this work sets for the evidence for this fundamental thesis about how Confucianism was transformed during the Song era and how Zhu Xi successfully asserted his claim to be the authoritative reader of the Classics and definer of Confucian traditions.