ISBN:
0520053702
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg. eScholarship editions
Uniform Title:
Chūgoku chūsei shakai to kyōdōtai 〈engl.〉
DDC:
306/.0931
Keywords:
China Social conditions 221 B.C.-960 A.D
;
China
Abstract:
One of the concerns Europeans have held since the eighteenth century regarding the universe of the peoples of Asia has been to demonstrate in comparison to the European world whether human freedom existed in Asia. This concern was fitting to that universal age never witnessed before modernity when human society had been perfected. Numerous inquiries into China's past and present were born of this concern, and these studies exerted a powerful influence upon the intellectual worlds of both China and Japan. What would the future bring China, having just ended over two thousand years of despotism in the early twentieth century? What was the chance that her past and present prepared her for it?
Note:
Translation of: Chūgoku chūsei shakai to kyōdōtai
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