Escape from Predicament : : Neo-Confucianism and China’S Evolving Political Culture / / 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 modernizat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1977] ©1977 |
| Year of Publication: | 1977 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
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Table of 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