In An Intellectual History of China, Professor Ge Zhaoguang presents a history of traditional Chinese knowledge, thought and belief to the late six century CE with a new approach offering a new perspective. It appropriates a wide range of source materials and emphasizes the necessity of understanding ideas and thought in their proper historical contexts. Its analytical narrative focuses on the dialectical interaction between historical background and intellectual thought. While discussing the complex dynamics of interaction among the intellectual thought of elite Chinese scholars, their historical conditions, their canonical texts and the “worlds of general knowledge, thought and belief,” it also illuminates the significance of key issues such as the formation of the Chinese world order and its underlying value system, the origins of Chinese cultural identity and foreign influences.

葛兆光教授著《中國思想史·上捲：七世紀前中國的知識、思想與信仰世界）的英譯本An Intellectual History of China, Volume One: Knowledge, Thought, and Belief before the Seventh Century CE 近期由荷蘭Brill齣版社齣版。

該書以新的視角清理與敘述上古到7世紀以前的中國知識、思想與信仰的曆史，引徵豐富的古代文獻，強調從曆史脈絡理解思想觀念的必要性。書中的分析注重曆史背景與思想的互動，不僅討論精英士大夫的復雜思想流變與交錯，其曆史條件與經典文本，也描述作為這些思想的土壤的一般世界的知識、思想與信仰的曆史。本書還涉及中華世界秩序的形成及其價值體係、中國文化認同的起源與外來影響等重要課題。