TY  - BOOK
AU  - Metzger,Thomas A.
TI  - Escape from Predicament: Neo-Confucianism and China’S Evolving Political Culture 
SN  - 9780231910323
PY  - 1977///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/metz91032
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231881715
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ER  -