In Search of Wealth and Power : : Yen Fu and the West /

In Search of Wealth and Power : : Yen Fu and the West / / Benjamin Scwartz.

In a serious effort to divine the secret of the West's success in achieving wealth and power, Yen Fu, a Chinese thinker, undertook, at the turn of the century, years of laborious translation and commentary on the work of such thinkers as Spencer, Huxley, Adam Smith, Mill, and Montesquieu. In ad...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
VerfasserIn:
Scwartz, Benjamin,
MitwirkendeR:
Hartz, Louis,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1964
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Harvard East Asian Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • I. The Setting
  • II. The Early Years
  • III. Declaration of Principles
  • IV. Western Wisdom at Its Source: Evolution and Ethics
  • V. The Wealth of Nations
  • VI. On Liberty
  • VII. The Spirit of the Laws
  • VIII. A History of Politics
  • IX. Mill's Logic
  • X. Meditations on the Tao
  • XI. The Later Years
  • XII. Some Implications
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Index

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