Herrlee Creel
Herrlee Glessner Creel (born January 19, 1905 in Chicago , † June 2, 1994 ) was an American sinologist and philosopher . He was a professor at the University of Chicago . In 1983 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society .
A lengthy professional discussion about the essence of Chinese writing ( ideography versus logography ) with his colleague Peter A. Boodberg came out in favor of the latter.
Works
- Sinism: A Study of the Evolution of the Chinese World-View (1929)
- "On the Nature of Chinese Ideography". T'oung Pao 32 (1936), pp. 85-161.
- The Birth of China: A Study of the Formative Period of Chinese Civilization (1937)
- "On the Ideographic Element in Ancient Chinese." T'oung Pao 34 (1938), pp. 265-294
- Chinese Writing (1943)
- Newspaper Chinese by the Inductive Method (1943) with Teng Ssu-yu
- Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method , 3 volumes (1938–1952) Volume I The Hsiao Ching; Volume II Selections from the Lün Yu; Volume III The Mencius, eds., With Tsung-Ch'ien Chang and Richard C. Rudolph
- Studies in Early Chinese Culture (1948)
- Confucius, the Man and the Myth (1949) as Confucius and the Chinese Way (1960)
- Chinese Thought from Confucius to Mao Tse-Tung (1953)
- Origins of Statecraft in China (1970) Volume One. The Western Chou Empire
- Shen Pu-hai. A Chinese Political Philosopher of the Fourth Century BC (1974)
- What is Taoism ?: and other Studies in Chinese Cultural History (1977)
Web links
- University of Chicago Chronicle obituary
- The Ideographic Myth (The Boodberg-Creel debate portrayed by John DeFrancis)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member History: Herrlee G. Creel. American Philosophical Society, accessed July 1, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Creel, Herrlee |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Creel, Herrlee Glessner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 1994 |