The Confucian Persuasion (Stanford Studies in the Civilizations O)

First published by Stanford University press in 1960. "This is the fourth in a series of symposia devoted to the principals of Chinese thought as these have influenced the cultural life and institutional development of China. . .The emphasis in the symposia is upon two aspects of the Confucian tradition. One is the operational force of how it has affected individual lives and the evolution of institutions. The other is the pattern of growth and the complex ways in which it has been adapted to the shifting needs of the Chinese through twenty-five centuries of their history. . ." Preface Contents Contributors Introduction The Confucianization of South China Sui Yang-Ti: Personality and Stereotype Neo-Confucianism and Neo-Legalism in Tang Intellectual Life, 755-805 Confucian Elements in the Theory of Painting Traditional Heroes in Chinese Popular Fiction Protest Against Conventions and Conventions of Protest Confucian Eremitism in the Yüan Period Some Themes in Chinese Rebel Ideologies Ill Wind in the Well-Field: The Erosion of the Confucian Ground of Controversy The Anti-Confucian Movement in Early Republican China Notes Index