Escape from Predicament : Neo-Confucianism and China{u2019}S Evolving Political Culture

"A critique and response to Max Weber's 'The Religion of China, ' arguing that sagehood, implying the transformation of the social order, was taken as a personal goal by Neo-Confucians, producing an 'extreme ethical tension' that later provided the impetus for modernization"--J. Carmen. Acknowledgments Table of Contents Introduction Chapter One. Dependency and the Humanistic Theory of Chinese Familism Chapter Two. Tang Chim-i's Concept of Confucian Self-fulfillment Chapter Three. The Neo-Confucian Sense of Predicament Chapter Four. Neo-Confucianism and the Political Culture of Late Imperial China Chapter Five. The Ethos of Interdependence in an Age of Rising Optimism and Westernization Notes Bibliography Glossary and Terminological Index General Index Studies of the East Asian Institute