I.B.5. Scholarship in Particular Fields

I.B.5.a. Intellectual and Religious History

Intellectual History

A general review by a senior intellectual historian is

On Wang Anshi's New Learning, see:

This review article is divided up into sections on the formation of New Learning, its content, special features, influence and historical significance.

On Neo-Confucianism in particular see, for Japan:

for Western studies of Neo-Confucianism:

For one view of several recent studies of Sung intellectual history with a particular emphasis on Neo-Confucianism, see:

for China:

For Chinese scholarship on Chu Hsi, see:

On the changes in the evaluation of Chu Hsi in the PRC, see:

For a review of recent scholarship on Eastern Zhe intellectuals, see

For Taiwan scholarship on Ssu-ma Kuang's Tzu-chih t'ung-chien, see:

For a review of research on Song historical scholarship, see

On Song classical scholarship, see

Religious History

For a review of Japanese scholarship published between 1980 and 2005, see:

For a review of scholarship on Buddhism and Taoism, see:

On shrines, see:

See also I.B4.