Chinese Philosophy Links

Note: As of May 2009, this page will no longer be updated. Please click through to the corresponding page on my new site here.

Information Hubs

Manyul Im’s blog hosts many rich discussions of Chinese philosophy and serves as a clearinghouse for information on the state of the field. Good discussions in other places are usually announced on Manyul’s site.
Joseph Adler’s Links for Chinese Religions and Philosophy.
Gene Thursby’s Taoism Information Page.
James Miller’s Daoist Studies website.
Hanno Lecher’s Internet Guide for Chinese Studies: Philosophy and Religion.
Charles Muller’s Resources for East Asian Language and Thought.
Steven Brown’s Chinese Philosophy Page is now outdated; many of the links no longer work.
Su Tzu’s Chinese philosophy page is obsolete (no updates since 1996).

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Articles in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy provide some of the most extensive sources of information about Chinese philosophy on line. As of December 2008, the SEP includes the following entries on Chinese thought:

Chinese Ethics (David Wong)

Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western (David Wong)

Confucius (Jeffrey Riegel)

Daoism (Chad Hansen)

Laozi (Alan Chan)

Mencius (Kwong Loi Shun)

Mohism (Chris Fraser)

Mohist Canons (Chris Fraser)

School of Names (Chris Fraser)

Xunzi (Dan Robins)

Zhuangzi (Harold Roth)

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Another excellent source is the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, which covers many topics not treated in the SEP. As of December 2008, the IEP includes these articles on Chinese philosophy:

Confucius (Jeff Richey)

Daoism (Ronnie Littlejohn)

Dai Zhen (Justin Tiwald)

Ge Hong (Keith Knapp)

Guo Xiang (J. Scot Brackenridge)

Hui Neng (John Thompson)

Laozi (Ronnie Littlejohn)

Liezi (Steve Coutinho)

Mencius (Jeffrey Richey)

Modern Chinese Philosophy (Yih-Hsien Yu)

Mozi (Hui-chieh Loy)

Neo-Confucianism (John H. Berthrong)

Seng Zhao (Jeffrey Dippmann) (see also the excellent article on Nagarjuna by Douglas Berger)

Wang Bi (Ronnie Littlejohn)

Wang Yangming (Youngmin Kim)

Xunzi (David Elstein)

Yang Xiong (Andrew Colvin)

Zhang Zai (David Elstein)

Zhong Hui (Alan Chan)

Zhuangzi (Steve Coutinho)

Zhu Xi (Kirill Thompson)

E-Texts

Donald Sturgeon’s extensive Chinese Text Project.
中華文化網 has an extensive set of Chinese philosophy e-texts here. For their other selections, see here.
The Shuhai Wenyuan is a useful digital database of classical Chinese texts hosted by the University of Hawaii.
The National Palace Museum’s 寒泉古典文獻全文檢索資料庫, a searchable database, is here.
古籍電子書連線 links to a vast assortment of texts.
Steve Angle’s Chinese Philosophical Etext Archive offers a range of texts. This is one of the few sites to offer Song, Ming, and later Confucian texts.
翰廬 has a wide selection of texts here.
The Dao is Open site provides e-texts of six versions of the Dàodéjīng.
Mugitani Kunio’s Sinology text archive
Burton Watson’s English translation of the Zhuangzi.
Lionel Giles’s English translation of the Liezi.
Paul Halsall’s links to English translations of Chinese philosophical texts.
Search for “Lao Tzu” on this page to find several dozen translations of the Dàodéjīng, including Hansen’s, Henricks’s, and Lau’s.
Even more Dàodéjīng translations are available on this page.
Y. P. Mei’s translation of the Mozi.
Herbert Giles’s Chinese Sketches of 1875 (little to do with philosophy, but fascinating reading).

Professional Societies

A number of professional societies related to Chinese thought operate websites.