These essays examine the relation of society and the state or, more broadly, the place of political action in society and in the history of Sung China. Connections between intellectual change and sociopolitical change are a consistent focus; attitudes toward history and problems of authority are a recurrent concern. The authors suggest new kinds of continuity between the disparate intellectual worlds of Northern and Southern Sung China. Their findings have important implications for our understanding of the neo-Confucian ...
Read More
These essays examine the relation of society and the state or, more broadly, the place of political action in society and in the history of Sung China. Connections between intellectual change and sociopolitical change are a consistent focus; attitudes toward history and problems of authority are a recurrent concern. The authors suggest new kinds of continuity between the disparate intellectual worlds of Northern and Southern Sung China. Their findings have important implications for our understanding of the neo-Confucian movement in Sung history and of the Sung in the history of Chinese ideas about politics and social action.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. Purple cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has faint soil to boards, slight cock to spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ gently shelfworn.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fine. Text block, pages, boards and binding are pristine. Dust wrapper is like new. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Book. Octavo. VG/VG DJ. Light purple, grey, white, and black spine with white text/title; dustjacket is clean with mild edgewear; boards are strong and clean; binding is strong; textblock is clean. Pp. 437. 1303450. Rockville Non-Retail Listings.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
VG/G, ex-library. DJ and covers have fading at top. Stamped on text block, flyleaf and pocket in back. Pages clean. Illustrated dj; purple cloth covers; gilt lettering spine. xiv, 437 pages. Series: Studies on China #16 Contents: Su Hsun's pragmatic statecraft / George Hatch--State power and economic activism during the new policies, 1068-1085: the tea and horse trade and the "green sprouts" loan policy / Paul J. Smith--Government, society, and state: on the political visions of Ssu-ma Kuang and Wang An-shih / Peter K. Bol--Chu Hsi's sense of history / Conrad Schirokauer--Community and welfare: Chu Hsi's community granary in theory and practice / Richard von Glahn--Charitable estates as an aspect of statecraft in Southern Sung China / Linda Walton--Moral duty and self-regulating process in Southern Sung views of famine relief / Robert P. Hymes--The historian as critic: Li Hsin-ch'uan and the dilemmas of statecraft in Southern Sung China / John W. Chaffee--Wei Liao-weng's thwarted statecraft / James T.C. Liu--Chen Te-hsiu and statecraft / Wm. Theodore de Bary. Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-413) and index.
