Escape from Predicament: Neo-Confucianism and China's Evolving Political Culture

By Thomas Metzger

Book Overview

This book is a critique and response to Max Weber's The Religion of China, arguing that sagehood, implying the transformation of the social order, was taken as a personal goal by Neo-Confucians, producing an "extreme ethical tension" that later provided the impetus for modernization-- J. Carmen.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231039808
• ISBN13: 9780231039802
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher