Nobility and Civility : : Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good / / Wm. Theodore de Bary.
Globalization has become an inescapable fact of contemporary life. Some leaders, in both the East and the West, believe that human rights are culture-bound and that liberal democracy is essentially Western, inapplicable to the non-Western world. How can civilized life be preserved and issues of huma...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Confucius’ Noble Person
- 2 The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama
- 3 Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility
- 4 Shōtoku’s Constitution and the Civil Order in Early Japan
- 5 Chrysanthemum and Sword Revisited
- 6 The New Leadership and Civil Society in Song China
- 7 Civil and Military in Tokugawa Japan
- 8 Citizen and Subject in Modern Japan
- 9 “The People Renewed” in Twentieth-Century China
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index