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Xiong Shili's Understanding of Reality and Function, 1920-1937

Sang Yu’s 桑雨 monograph on Xiong Shili’s 熊十力 understanding of Reality (ti 體) and Function (yong 用) is an important addition to the Brill series on modern Chinese philosophy. Although Xiong is often mentioned in Anglophone scholarship for his role in establishing the ontological basis of New Confucian philosophy, few scholars, apart from John Makeham, who has translated Xiong’s Xin weishi lun 新唯識論 into English (New Treatise on the Uniqueness of Consciousness, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015), have taken the time to decipher Xiong’s complex philosophical system. Despite the fact that Xiong is often regarded as one of the most important Chinese philosophers of the last century, this is in fact the first English-language monograph entirely dedicated to Xiong’s philosophy. This in itself marks Sang’s work as an important step forward in the field of modern Chinese philosophy.