ISBN:
0520067630
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Studies on China 11
Series Statement:
Studies on China
DDC:
305.5/52/095109045
Keywords:
Elite (Social sciences) Congresses
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China Social conditions
;
Congresses
;
Konferenzschrift
;
China
;
Provinz
;
Elite
;
Lokale Machtstruktur
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
The revered Chinese philosopher Mencius wrote: "There are pursuits proper to great men and pursuits proper to lesser men.... Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with their hands, and some labor with their minds. Those who labor with their minds govern others. Those who labor with their hands are governed by others. Those who are governed provide food for others. Those who govern are provided with food by others.' This is universally regarded as just. Few people would now openly subscribe to such explicitly elitist views.
Note:
Rev. versions of papers presented at the Conference on Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance held in Aug. 1987 at Banff, Canada; sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council
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A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
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