Confucian China and its Modern Fate: Volume Two: The Problem of Monarchical Decay

by Joseph Richmond Levenson

Book Overview

First published in 1964

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138991600
• ISBN13: 9781138991606
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"