One volume chasing the spirit of Chinese philosophy rather than the full chronicle: Confucius, Mencius, Yang Chu and Mo Ti, the Logicians, Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, the Han scholars, the Mystical School, Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, and the Neo-Confucians, from antiquity to the mid-twentieth century.
By Fung Yu-lan, the twentieth century’s best-known historian of Chinese philosophy, translated by E. R. Hughes, first published 1947. The compact companion to his two-volume A History of Chinese Philosophy.