Realms of Freedom in Modern China (The Making of Modern Freedom) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804748780 ISBN 13: 9780804748780

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

This is the last in The Making of Modern Freedom Series , initiate by J.H. Hexter, who saw freedom as "purely Western in origin" and only found elsewhere "in consequence of Western influence." However the editor of this volume, Kirby (history, Harvard U.), suggests that China has "its own universal and historical conceptions of obligations and freedoms" and feels freedom in China should be studied on its own terms as well as in comparison with the West. To that end, he presents 11 papers that explore such topics as Confucian concepts of individual moral autonomy, economic freedom in late Imperial China, freedoms and customs in the making of civil law in the Nationalist era, discourses of dissent, and the meaning of freedom in marriage. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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William C. Kirby is the Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of History and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0804748780
• ISBN 13: 9780804748780
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
• Herausgeber: Kirby William C.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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