From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China,

pp. 368, "From Philosophy to Philology is an indispensable work on the intellectual life of China? literati in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While there was not a scientific revolution in China, there was an intellectual one. The shock of the Manchu conquest and the collapse of the Ming dynasty in 1644 led to a...