The Confucian-legalist state : a new theory of Chinese history /
"The Confucian-Legalist State proposes a new theory of social change and, in doing so, analyzes the patterns of Chinese history, such as the rise and persistence of a unified empire, the continuous domination of Confucianism, and China's impossibility to develop industrial capitalism witho...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in early empires.
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Table of Contents:
- A Disclaimer
- Maps
- Part I. Empirical and Theoretical Considerations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: A Theory of Historical Change
- Part II. The Historical Background of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty
- Chapter 2: The Western Zhou (ca. 1045-771 BCE) Order and Its Decline
- Chapter 3: The Historical Setting of Eastern Zhou, an Age of War
- Part III. War-driven Dynamism in Eastern Zhou
- Chapter 4: The Age of Hegemons (770-546 BCE)
- Chapter 5: The Age of Transition (545-420 BCE)
- Chapter 6: In the Age of Total War (419-221 BCE): (1) Philosophies and Philosophers
- Chapter 7: In the Age of Total War: (2) Absolutism Prevailing
- Chapter 8: In the Age of Total War: (3) Qin and the Drive toward Unification
- Chapter 9: Western Han and the Advent of the Confucian-Legalist State
- Part IV. The Confucian-Legalist State and Patterns of Chinese History
- Chapter 10: Pre-Song Challenges to the Confucian-Legalist Political Framework and Song Responses
- Chapter 11: Relations between Nomads and Settled Chinese in History
- Chapter 12: Neo-Confucianism and the Advent of a "Confucian Society"
- Chapter 13: Market Economy under the Confucian-Legalist State
- Concluding Remarks.