Traces of Grand Peace - Classics and State Activism in Imperial China

Summary

In Northern Song China, reform-minded statesmen sought to remove the tension between the Confucian Classics and statist ideals of “big government.” Jaeyoon Song illuminates the interplay between classics, thinkers, and government in statist reform, and explains why the uneasy marriage of classics and state activism had to fail in imperial China.

Product details

• Authors: Jaeyoon Song
• Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780674088368
• ISBN: 978-0-674-08836-8
• No. of pages: 450
• Dimensions: 237 mm x 163 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 748 g
• Illustrations: 18 line illustrations, 8 tables
• Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series; Harvard-Yenching Institute Mon; Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series; Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph (HUP)
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas