ABSTRACT
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|21 pages
The Suggestiveness of Vestiges: Confucianism and Monarchy at the Last (I)
part Two|51 pages
Tension and Vitality
part Three|42 pages
The Break in the Line of Tension
chapter Chapter VI|10 pages
Bureaucracy's Long Imperviousness to Social Revolution: the Role of Confucianism
part Four|23 pages
The Vestige of Suggestiveness: Confucianism and Monarchy at the Last (II)
