Herrlee Glessner Creel - Societies and Publishing

Societies and Publishing

Creel was a member of the Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies, a member of its Committee on Far Eastern Studies, and the President of the American Oriental Society. He also held membership of the Association for Asian Studies and of the American Philosophical Society. The most influential of Creel’s books include The Birth of China (1936), the first detailed account on the significance of the archaeological excavations at Anyang, which quickly attracted global interest; Studies in Early Chinese Culture (1937) which was an influential collection of monographs; Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, vols. 1–111 (1938–52), a groundbreaking and controversial attempt to teach literary Chinese through carefully glossed excerpts from standard classical texts; Newspaper Chinese by the Inductive Method (1943), an effort to apply identical pedagogical techniques to the analysis of Chinese newspapers; Confucius, the Man and the Myth (1949), a critical analysis of the philosopher Confucius; Chinese Thought from Confucius to Mao Tse-tung (1953), a survey of Chinese thought; The Origins of Statecraft in China, Vol. 1: The Western Chou Empire (University of Chicago Press, 1970), a judicial account of the polity of the Western Chou dynasty; What is Taoism? and Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History (University of Chicago Press, 1970) and Shen Pu-hai: A Chinese Political Philosophy of the Fourth Century B.C. (1974), an important monograph on an obscure early Chinese specialist on administrative technique