Author: Fang-chung Liang
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 168417130X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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This translation of Liang Fang-chung's monograph from 1936 sheds news light on the Single Whip Reform of the Ming Dynasty and its effect on the economic and sociopolitical situation of the time.
Author: Denis Crispin Twitchett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521243339
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.
Author: Shao-Kwan Chen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Author: Liang Fang-chung
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: John Makeham
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN: 9780674012165
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Author: Garret P. S. Olberding
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684175348
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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In the popular consciousness, manipulative speech pervades politicized discourse, and the eloquence of politicians is seen as invariably rooted in cunning and prevarication. Rhetorical flourishes are thus judged corruptive of the substance of political discourse because they lead to distortion and confusion. Yet the papers in Facing the Monarch suggest that separating style from content is practically impossible. Focused on the era between the Spring and Autumn period and the later Han dynasty, this volume examines the dynamic between early Chinese ministers and monarchs at a time when ministers employed manifold innovative rhetorical tactics. The contributors analyze discrete excerpts from classical Chinese works and explore topics of censorship, irony, and dissidence highly relevant for a climate in which ruse and misinformation were the norm. What emerges are original and illuminating perspectives on how the early Chinese political circumstance shaped and phrased—and prohibited—modes of expression.
Author: Peter K. Bol
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684174805
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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"Where does Neo-Confucianism—a movement that from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries profoundly influenced the way people understood the world and responded to it—fit into our story of China’s history? This interpretive, at times polemical, inquiry into the Neo-Confucian engagement with the literati as the social and political elite, local society, and the imperial state during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties is also a reflection on the role of the middle period in China’s history. The book argues that as Neo-Confucians put their philosophy of learning into practice in local society, they justified a new social ideal in which society at the local level was led by the literati with state recognition and support. The later imperial order, in which the state accepted local elite leadership as necessary to its own existence, survived even after Neo-Confucianism lost its hold on the center of intellectual culture in the seventeenth century but continued as the foundation of local education. It is the contention of this book that Neo-Confucianism made that order possible."
Author: Rebecca Nodostup
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684174953
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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"We live in a world shaped by secularism—the separation of numinous power from political authority and religion from the political, social, and economic realms of public life. Not only has progress toward modernity often been equated with secularization, but when religion is admitted into modernity, it has been distinguished from superstition. That such ideas are continually contested does not undercut their extraordinary influence. These divisions underpin this investigation of the role of religion in the construction of modernity and political power during the Nanjing Decade (1927–1937) of Nationalist rule in China. This book explores the modern recategorization of religious practices and people and examines how state power affected the religious lives and physical order of local communities. It also looks at how politicians conceived of their own ritual role in an era when authority was meant to derive from popular sovereignty. The claims of secular nationalism and mobilizational politics prompted the Nationalists to conceive of the world of religious association as a dangerous realm of “superstition” that would destroy the nation. This is the first “superstitious regime” of the book’s title. It also convinced them that national feeling and faith in the party-state would replace those ties—the second “superstitious regime.”"
Author: David Schaberg
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN: 9780674008618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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The narratives are so constructed as to demonstrate the truth and indeed the naturalness of these attitudes. Their dominant perspective is that of officials rather than rulers, and the anecdotes represent the efforts of a group of officials and ministers to argue for a moralizing interpretation of the events of Zhou history and for their own value as skilled interpreters of events and advisors to the rulers of the day."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684173507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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"In this history of Japanese involvement in northeast China, the author argues that Japan’s military seizure of Manchuria in September 1931 was founded on three decades of infiltration of the area. This incremental empire-building and its effect on Japan are the focuses of this book. The principal agency in the piecemeal growth of Japanese colonization was the South Manchurian Railway Company, and by the mid-1920s Japan had a deeply entrenched presence in Manchuria and exercised a dominant economic and political influence over the area. Japanese colonial expansion in Manchuria also loomed large in Japanese politics, military policy, economic development, and foreign relations and deeply influenced many aspects of Japan’s interwar history."
