Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Way and Its Crossroads 1
5. PART I. THE WAY OF MAN: SCHOLARLY NETWORKS AND THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP
6. 1. Learning to Be a Scholar 21
7. 2. Official Scholars and the Growing Philologists’ Networks 40
8. 3. Private Scholars, Private Academies, and the Community of Knowledge 55
9. PART II. THE WAY OF ANTIQUITY: SEARCHING FOR THE TRUE WAY IN THE PAST
10. 4. The Way of Ancient Learning: Philology, Antiquity, and Ru Identity 85
11. 5. Philology and the Message of the Sages: The Classics and the Four Books 101
12. 6. Historical Philology: Navigating the Sources 118
13. PART III. THE WAY OF HEAVEN AND EARTH: THE MANDATE OF SCHOLARSHIP AND THE SEARCH FOR ORDER
14. 7. Astronomy, Mathematics, and Calendar: Historical Perspective 135
15. 8. Ancient Learning Encounters Western Learning: Scientific Knowledge and Its Cultural Baggage 150
16. 9. Fate, Ritual, and Ordering All Under Heaven 163
17. Conclusion: The Consequences of the Eighteenth-Century Intellectual Transformations 179
18. Appendix A: Selections from Qian Daxin’s 1754 Palace Examination Answer 195
19. Appendix B: Major Shuowen and Erya Studies of the Qian-Jia Period (and Related Works), 1736–1820 199
20. Appendix C: Qian Daxin’s Letter to Dai Zhen (1754) 205
21. Appendix D: Questions and Answers About Astronomy 209
22. Appendix E: Essay on the Value of π 211
23. Appendix F: Qian Daxin’s Writings on Mathematics, Astronomy, and Divination 213
24. Appendix G: On Saṃsāra 217
25. Appendix H: Sources for the Works of Qian Daxin 221
26. Note on Abbreviations and Citations 225
27. Notes 227
28. Selected Bibliography of Chinese and Japanese Titles 285
29. Index 299