Book Title
Genealogy of the Way: The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in Late Imperial China
Type of Work
Book
Files
Publication Date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press
City
Stanford, CA, USA
ISBN
9780804724258
Abstract
Beginning in the Southern Sung, one Confucian sect gradually came to dominate literati culture and, by the Ming dynasty, was canonized as state orthodoxy. This book is a historical and textual critique of the process by which claims to exclusive possession of the truth came to serve power.
Hamilton Areas of Study
Asian Studies, History
Notes
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