Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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