The problem of monarchical decay

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The problem of monarchical decay

Joseph R. Levenson

(China : history, philosophy, economics, 15 . Confucian China and its modern fate ; v. 2)

Routledge, 2005, c1964

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Reprint. Originally published: London : Routledge and K. Paul, 1964. (Confucian China and its modern fate / Joseph R. Levenson ; v. 2)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-175) and index

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Description

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

Table of Contents

  • Preface, Joseph R Levenson
  • Part 1 Confucian China and its Modern Fate, Joseph R Levenson
  • Part 2 The Suggestiveness of Vestiges: Confucianism and Monarchy at the Last (I), Joseph R Levenson
  • Chapter 1 The Draining of the Monarchical Mystique, Joseph R Levenson
  • Part 3 Tension and Vitality, Joseph R Levenson
  • Chapter 2 Confucianism and Monarchy: the Basic Confrontation, Joseph R Levenson
  • Chapter 3 The Evolution of the Confucian Bureaucratic Personality, Joseph R Levenson
  • Chapter 4 Confucianism and Confucianism: the Basic Confrontation, Joseph R Levenson
  • Chapter 5 Confucianism and Monarchy: the Limits of Despotic Control, Joseph R Levenson
  • Part 4 The Break in the Line of Tension, Joseph R Levenson
  • Chapter 6 Bureaucracy's Long Imperviousness to Social Revolution: the Role of Confucianism, Joseph R Levenson
  • Chapter 7 Bureaucracy's Vulnerability: the Intellectual Point of attack, Joseph R Levenson
  • Chapter 8 Taipings Storm the Confucian Heaven, Joseph R Levenson
  • Part 5 The Vestige of Suggestiveness: Confucianism and Monarchy at the Last (II), Joseph R Levenson
  • Chapter 9 The Making of an Anachronism, Joseph R Levenson
  • Chapter 10 Conclusion: The Japanese and Chinese Monarchical Mystiques, Joseph R Levenson

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