CHU HSI

born Oct. 18, 1130, Yu-hsi, Fukien province, China died April 23, 1200, China Pinyin Zhu Xi, literary name (hao) Yan Hui, or Chung Hui, courtesy names (tzu) Hui An, Ch'en Lang, Chi Yen, Hui Weng, Hsn Weng, or Yn Ku Lao-jen, also called Chu-tzu, or Chu-fu-tzu Chinese philosopher whose synthesis of Neo-Confucian thought long dominated Chinese intellectual life. Additional reading Studies include Wing-tsit Chan, "Chu Hsi: Life and Thought (1987), and Chu Hsi: New Studies (1989); Hoyt Cleveland Tillman, Utilitarian Confucianism: Ch'en Liang's Challenge to Chu Hsi (1982); Wm. Theodore de Bary, Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy and the Learning of the Mind-and-Heart (1981), on the development of Chu Hsi's thought after his death; Wing-tsit Chan (ed.), Chu Hsi and Neo-Confucianism (1986), a set of conference papers; and Donald J. Munro, Images of Human Nature: A Sung Portrait (1988), an analysis of the concept of human nature in Chu Hsi's thought.