Escape from Predicament : Neo-Confucianism and China’S Evolving Political Culture /
Metzger, Thomas A.
Escape from Predicament : Neo-Confucianism and China’S Evolving Political Culture / Thomas A. Metzger. - 1 online resource (308 p.)
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Dependency and the Humanistic Theory of Chinese Familism -- Chapter Two. Tang Chim-i's Concept of Confucian Self-fulfillment -- Chapter Three. The Neo-Confucian Sense of Predicament -- Chapter Four. Neo-Confucianism and the Political Culture of Late Imperial China -- Chapter Five. The Ethos of Interdependence in an Age of Rising Optimism and Westernization -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary and Terminological Index -- General Index -- Studies of the East Asian Institute
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"A critique and response to Max Weber's 'The Religion of China,' arguing that sagehood, implying the transformation of the social order, was taken as a personal goal by Neo-Confucians, producing an 'extreme ethical tension' that later provided the impetus for modernization"--J. Carmen.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231910323 9780231881715
10.7312/metz91032 doi
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian.
Escape from Predicament : Neo-Confucianism and China’S Evolving Political Culture / Thomas A. Metzger. - 1 online resource (308 p.)
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Dependency and the Humanistic Theory of Chinese Familism -- Chapter Two. Tang Chim-i's Concept of Confucian Self-fulfillment -- Chapter Three. The Neo-Confucian Sense of Predicament -- Chapter Four. Neo-Confucianism and the Political Culture of Late Imperial China -- Chapter Five. The Ethos of Interdependence in an Age of Rising Optimism and Westernization -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary and Terminological Index -- General Index -- Studies of the East Asian Institute
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
"A critique and response to Max Weber's 'The Religion of China,' arguing that sagehood, implying the transformation of the social order, was taken as a personal goal by Neo-Confucians, producing an 'extreme ethical tension' that later provided the impetus for modernization"--J. Carmen.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231910323 9780231881715
10.7312/metz91032 doi
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian.