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Author Brusadelli, Federico, author.

Title Confucian concord : reform, utopia and global teleology in Kang Youwei's Datong Shu / by Federico Brusadelli
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 197 pages)
Series Ideas, history, and modern China, 1875-9394 ; volume 24
Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 24.
Contents Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 Roots -- Chapter 1 The Sage and the Unicorn -- Chapter 2 Indras Net -- Chapter 3 State and Science -- Part 2 Threads -- Chapter 4 Nation -- Chapter 5 Democracy -- Chapter 6 Socialism -- Part 3 Legacies -- Chapter 7 The Red Concord -- Chapter 8 A Datong for the Third Millennium -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "In Confucian Concord, Federico Brusadelli offers an intellectual analysis of the Datong Shu. Written by Kang Youwei (1858-1927) and conceived as his most esoteric and comprehensive legacy to posterity, the book was eventually published only posthumously, in 1935, being "too advanced for the times" in the author's own opinion. Connecting the book to the author's intellectual biography and framing it within the intellectual and political debate of the time, Brusadelli investigates the conceptual and philosophical implications of Kang's 'global prophecy', showing how an apparently 'utopian' and 'escapist' piece of literature was actually an attempt to save (at least ideally) the imperial political order, updating the traditional Confucian universalism to a new, 'modern' world"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 06, 2021)
Subject Kang, Youwei, 1858-1927. Da tong shu.
SUBJECT Da tong shu (Kang, Youwei) fast
Subject Utopias.
Universalism.
Confucianism.
utopian literature.
utopias.
Confucianism.
Confucianism
Universalism
Utopias
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020017496
ISBN 9789004434714
9004434712