| #3115757 in Books | 2016-10-05 | Original language:English | 9.25 x6.25 x1.25l,.0 | File type: PDF | 328 pages|||"The research behind this book is absolutely first rate. . . . Most often this story [of dynastic transition] is told from the point of view of the government, . . . [but here] we come to see late Ming and early Qing literati through their own eyes, and in the
During the Ming-Qing transition (roughly from the 1570s to the 1680s), literati-officials in China employed public forms of writing, art, and social spectacle to present positive moral images of themselves and negative images of their rivals. The rise of print culture, the dynastic change, and the proliferating approaches to Confucian moral cultivation together gave shape to this new political culture. Confucian Image Politics considers the moral images of officia...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Confucian Image Politics: Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China (Modern Language Initiative Books) | Ying Zhang. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.