Transition to Neo-ConfucianismThe Sung Neo Confucian synthesis is one of the two great formative periods in the history of Confucianism. Shao Yung (1011 77) was a key contributor to this synthesis, and this study attempts to make understandable the complex and highly theoretical thought of a philosopher who has been, for the most part, misunderstood for a thousand years. It is the first full length study in any language of Shao Yung's philosophy. Using an explicit