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China Turning Inward : Intellectual-Political Changes in the Early Twelfth Century / James T.C. Liu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liu, James T. C., 1919-1993, author.
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 132.
- Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection ISBN: 9789004407077.
- Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 132
- Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neo-Confucianism.
- China--History--Song dynasty, 960-1279.
- China.
- History.
- China--Intellectual life--960-1644.
- Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Intellectual-Political Changes in the Early Twelfth Century
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1988.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- During the traumatic opening decades of the Southern Sung, Emperor Kao-tsung's unspoken determination to win imperial safety at any cost shaped not only court policy but Confucian intellectual developments. The intellectual climate of the Northern Sung had been confident, buoyant, outreaching, and exploratory; in the Southern Sung, it turned inward. The turn was not, however, a simple turn to conservative moral and political Confucianism; and in this book, James T. C. Liu explores how Kao-tsung used ideological window-dressing to consolidate extraordinary state power in the emperor's hands. Ups and downs in the political fortunes of moralistic conservatives are also specially examined for their effects on the nature of the Neo-Confucianism that eventually became state orthodoxy.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Prologue
- A Focus on Contrasts
- Sung Learning
- Sung Confucianism
- The Moralistic Conservatives
- Autocracy and Councilors
- A Case Study: From Excellence to Exile
- Neo-Confucians as Transcendental Moralists: Dissension, Heresy, and Orthodoxy
- Epilogue
- Alphabetic List of Chief Councilors, 1127-1139
- Notes
- Abbreviations Used in the Bibliography
- Glossary-Index
- Harvard East Asian Monographs.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: China Turning Inward: Intellectual-Political Changes in the Early Twelfth Century,
- ISBN:
- 9781684172702
- 9780674117556
- OCLC:
- 569385351
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9781684172702 DOI
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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