Neo-Confucianism in History

By:

Peter K. Bol

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Harvard East Asian Monographs

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Where does Neo-Confucianism-a movement that from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries profoundly influenced the way people understood the world and responded to it-fit into our story of China's history? This interpretive, at times polemical, inquiry into the Neo-Confucian engagement with the literati as the social and political elite, local society, and the imperial state during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties is also a reflection on the role of the middle period in China's history. The book argues that as Neo-Confucians put their philosophy of learning into practice in local society, they justified a new social ideal in which society at the local level was led by the literati with state recognition and support. The later imperial order, in which the state accepted local elite leadership as necessary to its own existence, survived even after Neo-Confucianism lost its hold on the center of intellectual culture in the seventeenth century but continued as the foundation of local education. It is the contention of this book that Neo-Confucianism made that order possible.

Author Biography:

Peter K. Bol is Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.

Release date NZ

May 1st, 2010

Author

Peter K. Bol

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Illustrations

1 halftone, 2 maps

Pages

450

Series

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Dimensions

152x228x24

ISBN-13

9780674053243

Product ID

4190014

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