RLE: China: Confucian China and its Modern Fate: Volume Two: The Problem of Monarchical Decay
Joseph R. Levenson, "RLE: China: Confucian China and its Modern Fate: Volume Two: The Problem of Monarchical Decay "
English | ISBN: 0415361591 | April 4, 2005 | EPUB | 200 pages | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0415361591 | April 4, 2005 | EPUB | 200 pages | 2 MB
These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume Two includes:
· The Republic: Confucianism and Monarchism interwoven
· Confucianism and Monarchy: The basic confrontation
· The evolution of the Confucian Bureaucratic personality
· The limits of despotic control
· Monarch and people
· The Taiping Relation to Confucianism
· The Japanese and Chinese monarchical mystiques