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Escape from Predicament : Neo-Confucianism and China’S Evolving Political Culture / Thomas A. Metzger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1977]Copyright date: ©1977Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780231910323
  • 9780231881715
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: "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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231881715

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.

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