Repository | Book | Chapter

211850

Chinese philosophy under the influence of Western philosophy

Yijie Tang

pp. 137-143

Originally, there was no such a word as "philosophy" or zhe xue in the Chinese language. The term zhe xue was coined by a Japanese scholar Nishi Amane (1829–97), who borrowed the two Chinese characters zhe ("wisdom") and xue ('study") to refer to "philosophy" originated in Ancient Greece and Rome.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-1869-5_12

Full citation:

Tang, Y. (2016). Chinese philosophy under the influence of Western philosophy, in Anthology of philosophical and cultural issues, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 137-143.

This document is unfortunately not available for download at the moment.