Confucian concord : reform, utopia and global teleology in Kang Youwei's Datong Shu / by Federico Brusadelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brusadelli, Federico, author.

Series:

Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 24.

Ideas, history, and modern China, 1875-9394 ; volume 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kang, Youwei, 1858-1927. Da tong shu.

Kang, Youwei.

Utopias.

Universalism.

Confucianism.

Da tong shu (Kang, Youwei).

Physical Description:

viii, 197 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Roots

1. The Sage and the Unicorn: Confucian Progressivism and Esoteric Classicism

2. Indra's Net: Buddhism and the Hidden Face of Kang's Confucianism

3. State and Science: The Weight of the West

pt. 2 Threads

4. Nation: Defending Universalism from the Builders of Borders

5. Democracy: "You Don't Wear a Fur in Summer". Between Utopianism and Pragmatism

6. Socialism: Confucian Equality, from the Well-fields to the Communes

pt. 3 Legacies

7. The Red Concord: Kang Youwei and Mao Zedong, Meeting in the Land of Utopia?

8. A Datong for the Third Millennium: Globalism versus Nationalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Brusadelli, Federico. Confucian concord.

ISBN:

9789004434448

9004434445

OCLC:

1154851899