Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Preface

Part One: Introduction
A Brief Biography of Chu Hsi
Chu Hsi and the Crisis of the Way in the Twelfth Century
Restoring the Way: Chu Hsi's Educational Activities
Chu Hsi's Program of Learning for Followers of the Way
Chu Hsi and the Transformation of the Confucian Tradition

Part Two: Selections from the Conversations of Master Chu,
Arranged Topically-The Chapters on Learning
Note on Text and Translation
1. Lesser Learning (Chapter 7)
2. The Method of Learning, General Discussion (Chapter 8)
3· A Discussion of Knowledge and Action (Chapter 8)
4· On Reading, Part 1 (Chapter 10)
5· On Reading, Part 2 (Chapter 11)
6. Holding On to It (Chapter 12)
7· Energetically Putting It into Practice (Chapter 13)

Glossary
List of Works Cited
Index

About the Author

Daniel K. Gardner is Associate Professor of History at Smith College and author of Chu Hsi and the Ta-hsueh: Neo-Confucian Reflection on the Confucian Canon (1986).