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Record Nr.

UNINA9910800125303321

Autore

Major Philippe

Titolo

Confucian Iconoclasm : Textual Authority, Modern Confucianism, and the Politics of Antitradition in Republican China

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9781438495507

1438495501

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages)

Collana

SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Series

Disciplina

181.112

Soggetti

Confucianism - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1     Reviving the Spirit of Confucius -- Chapter 2     Returning to the Origin -- Interlude     ContextualizingTeleological History and Individual Autonomy -- Chapter 3     Performing Sagely Authority -- Chapter 4     Subsuming the Truth of Former Masters and Sages -- Conclusion   Hegemony and the Politics of Antitradition -- Notes Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Challenges deep-seated assumptions about the traditionalist nature of Confucianism by providing a new interpretation of the emergence of modern Confucianism in Republican China.