Chinese Studies in Philosophy Volume 27, 1996 – Issue 4

Abstract

It has been over a decade since Chinese Studies in Philosophy first published a selection of Wang Ruoshui’s writings under the title “On Humanism, Alienation, and Philosophy.” At the time, guest editor David A. Kelly described Wang as “a shadowy figure.” Outside of China, precious little was known about the man whose “agility in argument [made him] much more readable than the run of modern Chinese philosophers.”¹