1st Edition
Confucian China and its Modern Fate Volume Two: The Problem of Monarchical Decay
By Joseph R. Levenson
Copyright 2005
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1964
These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume Two includes:
· The Republic: Confucianism and Monarchism interwoven
· Confucianism and Monarchy: The basic confrontation
· The evolution of the Confucian Bureaucratic personality
· The limits of despotic control
· Monarch and people
· The Taiping Relation to Confucianism
· The Japanese and Chinese monarchical mystiques
Preface, Joseph R Levenson; Part 1 Confucian China and its Modern Fate, Joseph R Levenson; Part 2 The Suggestiveness of Vestiges: Confucianism and Monarchy at the Last (I), Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 1 The Draining of the Monarchical Mystique, Joseph R Levenson; Part 3 Tension and Vitality, Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 2 Confucianism and Monarchy: the Basic Confrontation, Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 3 The Evolution of the Confucian Bureaucratic Personality, Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 4 Confucianism and Confucianism: the Basic Confrontation, Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 5 Confucianism and Monarchy: the Limits of Despotic Control, Joseph R Levenson; Part 4 The Break in the Line of Tension, Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 6 Bureaucracy’s Long Imperviousness to Social Revolution: the Role of Confucianism, Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 7 Bureaucracy’s Vulnerability: the Intellectual Point of attack, Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 8 Taipings Storm the Confucian Heaven, Joseph R Levenson; Part 5 The Vestige of Suggestiveness: Confucianism and Monarchy at the Last (II), Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 9 The Making of an Anachronism, Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 10 Conclusion: The Japanese and Chinese Monarchical Mystiques, Joseph R Levenson;
Biography
Joseph R Levenson
