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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Metzger, Thomas A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1977]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 1977
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231881715; 9783110649680; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/metz91032
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Thomas A. Metzger.

"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.