Recommended Readings and Links

For bibliographic citations, please consult the endnotes at the bottom of each page.

Books

Bell, Daniel A., and Hahm Chaibong. Confucianism for the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Kassiola, Joel Jay. “Confucianizing Modernity and ‘Modernizing’ Confucianism: Environmentalism and the Need for a Confucian

Positive Argument for Social Change.” China’s Environmental Crisis: Domestic and Global Political Impacts and

Repsonses. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Swearer, Donald K. and Susan Lloyd McGarry, ed. Ecology and the Environment: Perspectives from the Humanities. Cambridge,

MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Tucker, Mary Evelyn and John Berthrong, ed. Confucianism and Ecology: the Interrelation of Heaven, Earth, and Humans.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Tucker, Mary Evelyn and John A. Grimm, ed. Worldviews and Ecology: Religion, Philosophy, and the Environment. Maryknoll, NY:

Orbis Books, 1994.

Journal Articles and Online Publications

Eytchison, Patrick. “Green Confucianism: Ecology, Class and the Green Movement.” Synthesis / Regeneration. Vol. 31, 2003.

http://www.greens.org/s-r/31/31-10.html

Li, Tianchen. “Confucian Ethics and the Environment.” Culture Mandala: The Bulletin of the Centre for East-West Cultural and

Economic Studies: Vol. 6: Iss. 1, Article 4. 2003. http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cm/vol6/iss1/4

Websites

Chinese Etymology http://www.chineseetymology.org

An extensive project by Richard Sears on the etymology of Chinese characters, drawing from the Shuowen Jiezi《說文解字》and a vast image collection of characters from different time periods. (Chinese and English)

Chinese Text Project 諸子百家 http://ctext.org/

A great searchable e-text database of ancient Chinese texts, including many philosophical masterpieces such as the Book of Rites, the Analects, the Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching), and much more. The site is very useful in studying and referencing Classical Chinese texts and was used for this project. (Chinese and English)

Elk Park (Milu Yuan) in Beijing, China 北京南海子麋鹿苑博物館 http://www.milupark.org.cn/index.php

Guo Geng, a curator of Beijing's Elk Park (Milu Yuan 麋鹿苑), is a well-known environmentalist in China. While researching the environmental perspective of the Three Teachings, or sanjiao (三教) - including Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism, Telfer was able to interview Mr. Guo on the subject in October of 2010. (Chinese only)