Chinese thought and institutions / edited by John K. Fairbank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991, editor.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Comparative studies of cultures and civilizations

Phoenix books (Chicago, Ill.) ; P270.

Phoenix book ; P270

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Intellectual life.

China.

Intellectual life.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 438 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : map, tables. ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [1957]

Contents:

Introduction: Problems of method and of content / John K. Fairbank

The intellectual history of China: preliminary reflections / Benjamin Schwartz

Part I. The Role of Ideas in the Exercise of State Power. The political function of astronomy and astronomers in Han China / Wolfram Eberhard; The formation of Sui ideology, 581604 / Arthur F. Wright; An early Sung reformer: Fan Chung-Yen / James T. C. Liu; The Tung-Lin Movement of the late Ming period / Charles O. Hucker; Chinese despotism and the Confucian Ideal: a seventeenth-century view / W. T. de Bary; Synarchy under the treaties / John K. Fairbank

Part II. Thought and Officialdom in the Social Order. Chinese class structure and its ideology / T'ung-tsu Ch'ü; Region, family, and individual in the Chinese examination system / E. A. Kracke, Jr.; The functional relationship between Confucian thought and Chinese religion / C. K. Yang; The concept of "Pao" as a basis for social relations in China / Lien-sheng Yang; The scholar's frustration: notes on a type of "Fu" / Hellmut Wilhelm; The amateur ideal in Ming and early Ch'ing society: evidence from painting / Joseph R. Levenson.

Notes:

"Published 1957. Sixth Impression 1973."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1978".

Potok Collection copy is "Sixth Impression 1973".

Potok Collection copy has label of Ludwig Mayer Ltd., Jerusalem.

ISBN:

0226234029

OCLC:

411726