Confucian Image Politics : Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China / / Ying Zhang.

• VerfasserIn: Zhang, Ying (History teacher),
• Place / Publishing House: Seattle, [Washington] ;, London, [England] : : University of Washington Press,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (329 pages) :; illustrations, photographs

During the Ming-Qing transition (roughly from the 1570s to the 1680s), literati-officials in China employed public forms of writing, art, and social spectacle to present positive moral images of themselves and negative images of their rivals. The rise of print culture, the dynastic change, and the proliferating approaches to Confucian moral cultivation together gave shape to this new political culture. Confucian Image Politics considers the moral images of officials—as fathers, sons, husbands, and friends—circulated in a variety of media inside and outside the court. It shows how power negotiations took place through participants’ invocations of Confucian ethical ideals in political attacks, self-expression, self-defense, discussion of politically sensitive issues, and literati community rebuilding after the dynastic change. This first book-length study of early modern Chinese politics from the perspective of critical men’s history shows how images—the Donglin official, the Fushe scholar, the turncoat figure—were created, circulated, and contested to serve political purposes.

Table of Contents

Part I. The Late Ming -- Lists, literature, and the Imagined Community of Factionalists: the Donglin -- Displaying Sincerity: the Fushe -- A Zhongxiao Celebrity: Huang Daozhou (1585-1646) -- Interlude: A Moral Tale of Two Cities, 1644-1645: Beijing and Nanjing -- Part II. The Early Qing -- Moralizing, the Qing Way -- Conquest, Continuity, and the Loyal Turncoat.