Confucian China and its Modern Fate: Volume One: The Problem of Intellectual Continuity

by Joseph Richmond Levenson

Book Overview

First published in 1958

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 One includes:
- The critique of Idealism
- Science and Ch'ing empiricism
- The Ming style, in society and art
- Confucianism and the end of the Taoist connection
- Eclecticism in the area of native Chinese choices
- T'i and Yung
- The Chin-Wen School and the classical sanction
- The modern Ku-Wen opposition to Chin-Wen reformism
- The role of nationalism
- Communism
- Western powers and Chinese revolutions
- Language change and the problem of continuity

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138971499
• ISBN13: 9781138971493
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"