In An Intellectual History of China, Professor Ge Zhaoguang presents a history of traditional Chinese knowledge, thought and belief to the late six century CE with a new approach offering a new perspective. It appropriates a wide range of source materials and emphasizes the necessity of understanding ideas and thought in their proper historical contexts. Its analytical narrative focuses on the dialectical interaction between historical background and intellectual thought. While discussing the complex dynamics of interaction among the intellectual thought of elite Chinese scholars, their historical conditions, their canonical texts and the “worlds of general knowledge, thought and belief,” it also illuminates the significance of key issues such as the formation of the Chinese world order and its underlying value system, the origins of Chinese cultural identity and foreign influences.

葛兆光教授著《中国思想史·上卷：七世纪前中国的知识、思想与信仰世界）的英译本An Intellectual History of China, Volume One: Knowledge, Thought, and Belief before the Seventh Century CE 近期由荷兰Brill出版社出版。

该书以新的视角清理与叙述上古到7世纪以前的中国知识、思想与信仰的历史，引徵丰富的古代文献，强调从历史脉络理解思想观念的必要性。书中的分析注重历史背景与思想的互动，不仅讨论精英士大夫的复杂思想流变与交错，其历史条件与经典文本，也描述作为这些思想的土壤的一般世界的知识、思想与信仰的历史。本书还涉及中华世界秩序的形成及其价值体系、中国文化认同的起源与外来影响等重要课题。