Imagining Boundaries ― Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts, and Hermeneutics

An anthology addressing the perennial boundary negotiations Confucianism goes through, both within itself and in relation to other intellectual traditions, showing how Confucianism has been reconfigured repeatedly in response to changing intellectual and historical circumstances. Some topics covered in the volume's ten chapters include strategies of Neo-Confucian heresiography; hermeneutical moments of the Great Learning (Ta-hsueh); and the exegetical reflections of James Legge (1815-1897) and Lo Chung-fan (d. circa 1850). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Kai-wing Chow is Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and is the author of The Rise of Ritualism in Late Imperial China: Ethics, Classics, and Lineage Discourse.

On-cho Ng is Associate Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University.

John B. Henderson is Professor of History and Religious Studies at Louisiana State University. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Neo-Confucian, Islamic, Jewish and Early Christian Patterns, also published by SUNY Press.