Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Way and Its Crossroads
Part I. The Way of Man: Scholarly Networks and the Social History of Scholarship
1. Learning to Be a Scholar
2. Official Scholars and the Growing Philologists’ Networks
3. Private Scholars, Private Academies, and the Community of Knowledge
Part II. The Way of Antiquity: Searching for the True Way in the Past
4. The Way of Ancient Learning: Philology, Antiquity, and Ru Identity
5. Philology and the Message of the Sages: The Classics and the Four Books
6. Historical Philology: Navigating the Sources
Part III. The Way of Heaven and Earth: The Mandate of Scholarship and the Search for Order
7. Astronomy, Mathematics, and Calendar: Historical Perspective
8. Ancient Learning Encounters Western Learning: Scientific Knowledge and Its Cultural Baggage
9. Fate, Ritual, and Ordering All Under Heaven
Conclusion: The Consequences of the Eighteenth-Century Intellectual Turns
Appendix A: Selections from Qian Daxin’s 1754 Palace Examination Answer
Appendix B: Major Shuowen and Erya Studies of the Qian-Jia Period (and Related Works)
Appendix C: Qian Daxin’s Letter to Dai Zhen
Appendix D: Questions and Answers About Astronomy
Appendix E: Essay on the Value of Pi Π
Appendix F: Qian Daxin’s Writings on Mathematics, Astronomy, and Divination
Appendix G: On Saṃsāra
Appendix H: Sources for the Works of Qian Daxin
Note on Abbreviations and Citations
Notes
Selected Bibliography of Chinese and Japanese Titles
Index
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