David Shepherd Nivison

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#3435

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#1233

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Asian Studies

#81

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#130

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#35

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David Shepherd Nivison

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According to Wikipedia, David Shepherd Nivison was an American sinologist known for his publications on late imperial and ancient Chinese history, philology, and philosophy, and his 40 years as a professor at Stanford University. Nivison is known for his use of archaeoastronomy to accurately determine the date of the founding of the Zhou dynasty as 1045 BC instead of the traditional date of 1122 BC.

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The Ways of Confucianism: Investigations in Chinese Philosophy (1996) (106)
Confucianism in action (1960) (94)
Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings@@@The Philosophy of Wang Yang-ming (1964) (55)
The Dates of Western Chou (1983) (51)
Communist Ethics and Chinese Tradition (1956) (39)
The Cambridge History of Ancient China: The Classical Philosophical Writings (1999) (35)
Astronomical Evidence for the Bamboo Annals' Chronicle of Early Xia (1990) (33)
Chinese Language, Thought, and Culture Nivison and His Critics (1996) (28)
Aspects of Traditional Chinese Biography (1962) (26)
1040 as the Date of the Chou Conquest (1982) (22)
The Life and Thought of Chang Hsueh-Ch'eng (1738-1801) (1967) (19)
Moral Decision in Wang Yang-ming: The Problem of Chinese "Existentialism" (1973) (17)
The Reform and Abolition of the Traditional Chinese Examination System . By Wolfgang Franke. Cambridge: Center for East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1960, viii, 100. Notes, Sources. $2.50. (paper) (1961) (10)
Royal “Virtue” in Shang Oracle Inscriptions (1978) (10)
Two Roots or One (1980) (10)
PROTEST AGAINST CONVENTIONS AND CONVENTIONS OF PROTEST (1964) (6)
The Jin Hou Su Bells Inscription and its Implications for the Chronology of Early China (2000) (6)
On Translating Mencius (1980) (5)
The origin of the Chinese lunar lodge system. (1989) (5)
The Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project: Two Approaches to Dating (2002) (5)
An Interpretation of the “Shao Gao” (1995) (5)
Reply to Professor Takashima (1979) (2)
The Nivison Annals (2018) (2)
The riddle of the bamboo annals = 竹書紀年解謎 (2009) (2)
Instructions for Practical Living: Surrejoinder (1965) (1)
The “Question” Question* (1989) (1)
Fifty Years of Chinese Philosophy, 1898–1950 . By O. Brière S. J. Translated from the French by Lawrence G. Thompson. New York: Macmillan, 1956. 159. Index. $4.75. (1957) (0)
A concordance to Wang Yang-ming, "Chʿuan hsi lu" : text (1979) (0)
The Attitude of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng towards Buddhism (1956) (0)
23. Pre-Chou Chronology: History VS. Numerology in Hsia, Shang, and Chou (1986) (0)
The Stanford Chinese concordance series (1979) (0)
A New Interpretation of the Jīn Tv́ng 金藤 (2010) (0)
Does it Matter How Annandale Went Out (1960) (0)
EAC volume 13 Cover and Front matter (1988) (0)
Abstracts (1991) (0)
12. Mengzi as Philosopher of History (2017) (0)
Intellectual Trends in the Chʻing Period . Liang Chʻi-chʻao. Translated by Immanuel C. Y. Hsu with an Introduction and Notes. Foreword by Benjamin I. Schwartz. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. xxii, 147, lii. Notes, Index, Bibliography-Glossary. $5.75. (1960) (0)
D. C. Lau (tr.): Lao tzu; Tap te ching . (The Penguin Classics, L131.) 192 pp. Harmondsworth, Middx.: Penguin Books, 1963. 3s. 6d. (1965) (0)
13. The “Question” Question (1986) (0)
Chinese Thought: from Confucius to Mao Tse-tung . By H. G. Creel. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1953. ix, 293. Bibliography, References, Index. $5.00. (1955) (0)
The Life and Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (1738-1801)@@@The Life and Thought of Chang Hsueh-ch'eng (1738-1801) (1967) (0)
David S. Nivison (1990) (0)
A concordance to Wang Yang-ming,"Chʿuan hsi lu" : concordance . A concordance to Wang Yang-ming, "Ta Hsüeh wen" (1979) (0)
Confucianism in Action.@@@Intellectual Trends in the Ch'Ing Period.@@@Buddhism in Chinese History. (1960) (0)
A concordance to Tai Chen, "Yüan shan" . A concordance to Tai Chen, "Meng tzu tzu i shu cheng" (1979) (0)
Wm. Theodore De Bary And The Conference On Ming Thought. Self and Society in Ming Thought. (Studies in Oriental Culture, Number 4.) New York: Columbia University Press. 1970. Pp. xii, 550. $17.50 (1971) (0)

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