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Confucian China and its modern fate: a trilogy

Levenson, Joseph Richmond, 1920-1969.

Year: 1968.

Publisher: University of California Press.

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Frontmatter

VOLUME ONE: THE PROBLEM OF INTELLECTUAL CONTINUITY

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION: THE SPECIAL AND GENERAL HISTORICAL QUESTS

Part One: The Tone of Early-Modern Chinese Intellectual Culture

I THE ABORTIVENESS OF EMPIRICISM IN EARLY CH'ING THOUGHT

II THE AMATEUR IDEAL IN MING AND EARLY CH'ING SOCIETY: EVIDENCE FROM PAINTING

INTERLUDE: CONFUSCIANISM AND THE END OF THE TAOIST CONNECTION

Part Two: Chinese Culture in its Modern Metamorphoses: The Tensions of Intellectual Choice

III ECLECTICISM IN THE AREA OF NATIVE CHINESE CHOICES

IV T'I AND YUNG--'SUBSTANCE' AND 'FUNCTION'

V THE CHIN-WEN SCHOOL AND THE CLASSICAL SANCTION

VI THE MODERN KU-WEN OPPOSITION, REACTIONARY AND REVOLUTIONARY, TO CHIN-WEN REFORMISM

VII THE ROLE OF NATIONALISM IN THE DISOWNING OF THE PAST

VIII EMPHASIS ON GENERAL VALIDITY: (I) AS A DEFENCE OF TRADITION

IX EMPHASIS ON GENERAL VALIDITY: (2) AS AN ATTACK ON TRADITION

X COMMUNISM

XI WESTERN POWERS AND CHINESE REVOLUTIONS: THE POLITICAL SIDE OF CULTURE CHANGE

CONCLUSION: A NEW VOCABULARY OR A NEW LANGUAGE?

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VOLUME TWO: THE PROBLEM OF MONARCHICAL DECAY

PREFACE

Part One: The Suggestiveness of Vestiges: Confucianism and Monarchy at the Last (I)

I. THE DRAINING OF THE MONARCHICAL MYSTIQUE

II. CONFUCIANISM AND MONARCHY: THE BASIC CONFRONTATION

III. THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONFUCIAN BUREAUCRATIC PERSONALITY

IV. CONFUCIANISM AND CONFUCIANISM: THE BASIC CONFRONTATION

V. CONFUCIANISM AND MOINARCHY: THE LIMITS OF DESPOTIC CONTROL

Part Three: The Break in the Line of Tension

VI. BUREAUCRACY'S LONG IMPERVIOUSNESS TO SOCIAL REVOLUTION: THE ROLE OF CONFUCIANISM

VII. BUREAUCRACY'S VULNERABILITY: THE INTELLECTUAL POINT OF ATTACK

VIII. TAIPINGS STORM THE CONFUCIAN HAVEN

Part Four: The Vestige of Suggestiveness: Confucianism and Monarchy at the Last (II)

IX. THE MAKING OF AN ANACHRONISM

CONCLUSION: THE JAPANESE AND CHINESE MONARCHICAL MYSTIQUES

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VOLUME THREE: THE PROBLEM OF HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

PREFACE

Part One: Out of History

I. A LITTLE LIFE; LIAO P'ING AND THE CONFUCIAN DEPARTURE FROM HISTORY

II. ILL WIND IN THE WELL-FIELD: THE EROSION OF THE CONFUCIAN GROUND OF CONTROVERSY

Part Two: Into History

III. THE PLACING OF THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS BY THEIR STUDIES OF THE PAST

IV. THE PLACE OF CONFUCIUS IN COMMUNIST CHINA

Part Three: Historical Significance

V. THEORY AND HISTORY

CONCLUSION

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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Title:

Confucian China and its modern fate : a trilogy Joseph R. Levenson.

Author:

Levenson, Joseph Richmond, 1920-1969

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Confucian China and its modern fate : a trilogy Joseph R. Levenson.
Levenson, Joseph Richmond, 1920-1969
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.

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Subject Headings:

• Communism -- China
• China -- Civilization -- History
• China -- Intellectual life

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