Towards a New Understanding of Uchida Syuhei

Title

Towards a New Understanding of Uchida Syuhei

Author

Feng CAO

Page

75-99

DOI

10.6163/tjeas.2016.13(2)75

Abstract

In the past, the evaluation of the first book in the world on the history of Chinese philosophy Zhongguo Zhexueshi by Uchida Syuhei was not high. It is mainly because the book published in the nineteenth century was not considered ＂philosophical＂ enough. If we re-examine Uchida Syuhei's scholarship as well as his critique of Inoue Tetuzirou, the representative of ＂philosophy＂ at the time, we will find it necessary to reappraise Uchida's works. First of all, Uchida Syuhei has a penetrating insight into research on the School of Principle (Lixue) in the Song Dynasty. Secondly, his critique of Inoue Tetuzirou is rational. Uchida Syuhei's firm standpoint in the field of Sinology therefore is actually not backward and conservative. Through the biography of Uchida Syuhei, we can see a unique process of the development of Chinese philosophy in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Japan. It is significant and helpful for us to reexamine today's discipline of Chinese philosophy.

Keyword

Syuhei Uchida, Sinology, Chinese Philosophy, Inoue Tetsujiro

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