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Title Confucian cultures of authority / edited by Peter D. Hershock and Roger T. Ames
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 258 pages)
Series SUNY series in Asian studies development
SUNY series in Asian studies development.
Contents Introduction : Confucian cultures of authority / Peter D. Hershock and Roger T. Ames -- Two loci of authority : autonomous individuals and related persons / Henry Rosemont, Jr. -- Intimate authority : the rule of ritual in classical Confucian political discourse / Tao Jiang -- The wei (positioning)-ming (naming)-lianmian (face)-guanxi (relationship)-renqing (humanized feelings) complex in contemporary Chinese culture / Wenshaw Jia -- Creeping absolutism : parental authority as seen in early Medieval tales of filial offspring / Keith N. Knapp -- Virtue (de), talent (cai) and beauty (se) : authoring a full-fledged womanhood in Lienüzhuan (biographies of women) / Robin R. Wang -- Aspects of authority in Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West / Roberta E. Adams -- Establishing authority through scholarship : Ruan Yuan and the Xuehaitang academy / Steven B. Miles -- Intellectual and political controversies over authority in China : 1898-1922 / Lawrence R. Sullivan -- Ought we throw the Confucian baby out with the authoritarian bathwater? : a critical inquiry into Lu Xun's anti-Confucian identity / Virginia Suddath
Summary Annotation This volume examines the values that have historically guided the negotiation of identity, both practical and ideal, in Chinese Confucian culture, considers how these values play into the conception and exercise of authority, and assesses their contempora
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Philosophy, Confucian.
Confucianism.
Confucianism.
RELIGION -- Confucianism.
Confucianism
Philosophy, Confucian
Form Electronic book
Author Hershock, Peter D
Ames, Roger T., 1947-
LC no. 2005023942
ISBN 1429405112
9781429405119
9780791481561
0791481565
079146797X
0791467988
9780791467985
9780791467978