Chronology

Classical Figures and Texts

Confucius, Analects (d. 479 b.c.e.)

Mencius, Mencius (4th c. b.c.e.)

Xunzi, Xunzi (ca. 310-208 b.c.e.)

Early Neo-Confucians

(Song dynasty, 960-1279; Yuan dynasty, 1279-1368)

Zhou Dunyi (1017-1073)

Zhu Xi (1130-1200)

Song Lian (1310-1381)

Later Neo-Confucians

(Ming dynasty, 1368-1644; Qing dynasty, 1644-1911) Lu Kun (1536-1618)

Chen Que (1604-1677)

Huang Zongxi (1610-1695)

Gu Yanwu (1613-1682)

Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692)

Lu Liuliang (1629-1683)

Han Tan (1637-1704)

Dai Zhen (1723-1777)

Nineteenth-Century Figures

(Qing dynasty, 1644-1911; Opium War, 1839-1842) Lin Zexu (1785-1850)

Wei Yuan (1794-1856)

Li Hongzhang (1823-1901)

Chronology

Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901) KatO Hiroyuki (1836-1916) Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909) Hu Liyuan (1847-1916) Kang Youwei (1858-1927) He Qi (1859-1914) Tokutomi SohO (1863-1957) Tan Sitong (1865-1898)

Twentieth-Century Figures

(Republic of China, 1912- ; People’s Republic of China, 1949- ) Sun Yatsen (1866-1925) Liang Qichao (1873-1929) Chen Duxiu (1879-1942) Liu Shipei (1884-1919) Gao Yihan (1884-1968)

Hu Shi (1891-1962) Luo Longji (1896-1965)

Contemporary Figures

He Hangzhou

Li Buyun

Liu Huaqiu

Luo Mingda

Wei Jingsheng

Xia Yong

Zhang Wenxian