3 Review(s)

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