Under Confucian Eyes

2001 History

Author : Susan Mann
Release : 2001
Genre : History
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Download or read book Under Confucian Eyes written by Susan Mann. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This important volume adds a significant number of new and unique materials for teachers at all levels of higher education to use in classroom and seminar discussion about the issues of gender, society, and religion in imperial China."--Benjamin Elman, author of A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China "The eighteen primary documents in this anthology, all of them translated for the first time, provide a rich array of sources on the lives of women in China's past. The anthology is important not only for the selection of documents but for the ways it suggests we can think about, and find sources about, women in China. It is must reading for scholars and students alike."--Ann Waltner, author of The World of a Late Ming Visionary: T'an-Yang-Tzu and Her Followers

Review of Susan Mann and Yu-Yin Cheng(eds.), Under Confucian Eyes

2003

Author : Jen-der Lee
Release : 2003
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Under the Ancestors’ Eyes

2020-05-11 Political Science

Author : Martina Deuchler
Release : 2020-05-11
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Under the Ancestors’ Eyes written by Martina Deuchler. This book was released on 2020-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Ancestors’ Eyes presents a new approach to Korean social history by focusing on the origin and development of the indigenous descent group. Martina Deuchler maintains that the surprising continuity of the descent-group model gave the ruling elite cohesion and stability and enabled it to retain power from the early Silla (fifth century) to the late nineteenth century. This argument, underpinned by a fresh interpretation of the late-fourteenth-century Koryŏ-Chosŏn transition, illuminates the role of Neo-Confucianism as an ideological and political device through which the elite regained and maintained dominance during the Chosŏn period. Neo-Confucianism as espoused in Korea did not level the social hierarchy but instead tended to sustain the status system. In the late Chosŏn, it also provided ritual models for the lineage-building with which local elites sustained their preeminence vis-à-vis an intrusive state. Though Neo-Confucianism has often been blamed for the rigidity of late Chosŏn society, it was actually the enduring native kinship ideology that preserved the strict social-status system. By utilizing historical and social anthropological methodology and analyzing a wealth of diverse materials, Deuchler highlights Korea’s distinctive elevation of the social over the political.

Heaven Has Eyes

2020 China

Author : Xiaoqun Xu
Release : 2020
Genre : China
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Book Rating : 042/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Heaven Has Eyes written by Xiaoqun Xu. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history of Chinese law and justice from the imperial era to the post-Mao era, the book addresses the evolution and function of law codes and judicial practices in China's long history, and examines the transition from traditional laws and practices to their modern counterparts in the twentieth century and beyond. From the ancient times to the twenty-first century, there has been an enduring expectation or hope among the Chinese people that justice should and will be done in society, which is expressed in a popular Chinese saying, "Heaven has eyes." To the Chinese mind in the imperial era, justice was, and was to be achieved as, an alignment of Heavenly reason, state law, and human relations. Such a conception did not change until the turn of the twentieth century when Western-derived notions--natural rights, legal equality, the rule of law, judicial independence, and due process--came to replace the Confucian moral code of right and wrong, which was a fundamental shift in philosophical and moral principles that informed law and justice. The legal-judicial reform agendas since the beginning of the twentieth century (still ongoing today) stemmed from this change in the Chinese moral and legal thinking, but to materialize the said principles in everyday practices is a very different order of things that is much more difficult to accomplish, hence all the legal dramas including tragedies in the past one century or so. The book will lay out how and why that is the case"--

The Talented Women of the Zhang Family

2007 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Susan Mann
Release : 2007
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 895/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Talented Women of the Zhang Family written by Susan Mann. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is absolutely nothing remotely like this book in the history of late imperial women. [An] immensely important book."--Gail Hershatter, author of Women in China's Long Twentieth Century "A masterful work."--Lynn Hunt, coeditor of Beyond the Cultural Turn

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