The problem of monarchical decay
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The problem of monarchical decay
（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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