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This Pathbreaking Work Argues That The Major Intellectual Trend In China From The Seventeenth Through The Early Nineteenth Century Was Confucian Ritualism As Expressed In Ethics, Classical Learning, And Discourse On Lineage. The Conquest Of China By The Manchus And The Establishment Of The Ching Dynasty In The Mid-seventeenth Century Provoked Both Political And Identity Crises For Chinese Intellectuals. As A Result, They Returned To The Classical Heritage In An Intensified Search For Pure Confucian Doctrine And A Ritualist Expression Of Cultural Identity Under Alien Rule. Through The Performance Of Rites, Especially Those Concerned With Family And Lineage, The Early Ching Scholars Believed They Could Cultivate Confucian Virtues And Rebuild A Social Order Broadly Based On Kinship Organization. The Quest For Pure Confucian Doctrine And Rituals Resulted Not Only In The Revival Of The Exegetical Tradition Of Sung Neo-confucians In The Early Ching, But Also The Rise Of The Han Learning Movement In The Mid-eighteenth Century. Within The Ritualist Framework, Many Confucian Literati Re-examined Their Role In Relation To The Confucian Heritage, The Imperial State, And The Common People. Des

Author

Chow, Kai-wing, 1951-

Publisher

Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804721738

Subjects

Religion, History