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Research on Chinese Philosophy

Classical Chinese Texts On Internet

• 中國哲學書電子化計劃 compliled and maintained by Donald Sturgeon
  • Sturgen's ambitious project provides probably the most comprehensive and accurate classical Chinese texts on Internet. English translations are made available for most Chinese texts (though these translation are pretty old. Newer translations, whose copyrights have not expired, should be consulted for non-Chinese readers).
• Chinese Philosophical Etext Archive, maintained by Steve Angle
• Resources for East Asian Language and Thought, edited by Charles Muller.
• Shuhai Wenyuan, hosted by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii

Online Bibliographies

• Chinese Philosophy at PhilPapers: Online Research in Philosophy

• General Guides

  • Essential Readings on Chinese Philosophy by Bryan W. Van Norden
  • Resources in Chinese Philosophy, maintained by Chris Fraser (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

• Chinese Logic

  • Logic and Language in Ancient China (Raul Corazzon)

• Chinese Science

  • Nathan Sivin's ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF CHINESE SCIENCE AND MEDICINE (Sources in Western Languages)

• Chan Buddhism

  • CHAN/ZEN STUDIES IN ENGLISH: The State of the Field (by Bernard Faure)
• Neo-Confucianism

Papers Aavailable Online

• Articles from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (most articles have extensive bibiliography)
  • Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western (David Wong )
  • Confucius (Jeffrey Riegel)
  • Daoism (Chad Hansen)
  • Chinese Ethics (David Wong)
  • Japanese Confucian Philosophy (John Tucker )
  • Japanese Zen Buddhism Philosophy (Shigenori Nagatomo)
  • Laozi (Alan Chan)
  • Mencius (Kwong Loi Shun)
  • Mohism (Chris Fraser)
  • Mohist Canons (Chris Fraser)
  • School of Names (Chris Fraser)
  • Taoism (Chad Hansen)
  • Xunzi (Dan Robins)
  • Zhuangzi (Harold Roth)
• Articles from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Buddha (Abraham Velez)
  • Confucius (Jeff Richey)
  • Daoist Philosophy (Ronnie Littlejohn)
  • Ge Hong (Keith Knapp)
  • Guo Xiang (J. Scot Brackenridge)
  • Hui-neng (John M. Thompson)
  • Laozi (Ronnie Littlejohn)
  • Liezi (Steve Coutinho)
  • Madhyamaka Buddhism (Dan Arnold)
  • Mencius (Jeffrey Richey)
  • Modern Chinese Philosophy (Yih-Hsien Yu)
  • Nagarjuna (Douglas Berger)
  • Neo-Confucianism (John H. Berthrong)
  • Seng Zhao (Jeffrey Dippmann)
  • Wang Bi (Ronnie Littlejohn)
  • Wang Yangming (Youngmin Kim)
  • Xuanzang (Der Huey Lee)
  • Xunzi (David Elstein)
  • Yang Xiong (Andrew Colvin)
  • Yin-Yang (Robin R. Wang)
  • Zhang Zai (David Elstein)
  • Zhong Hui (Alan Kam-Leung Chan)
  • Zhuangzi (Steve Coutinho)
  • Zhu Xi (Kirill O. Thompson)
• Philosophers with personal papers online

Other Interesting Sites

• Daoist Studies maintained by James Miller
• Resources in Chinese Philosophy maintained by Chris Fraser (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• The Warring States Project (UMass)
• Chinese classics, Chinese dictionaries, Chinese culture links (Minder Chen's web page)