Introduction: Confucian Cultures of Authority | vii | ||
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Two Loci of Authority: Autonomous Individuals and Related Persons | 1 | (20) | |
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Intimate Authority: The Rule of Ritual in Classical Confucian Political Discourse | 21 | (28) | |
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The Wei (Positioning)-Ming (Naming)-Lianmian (Face)- Guanxi (Relationship)-Renqing (Humanized Feelings) Complex in Contemporary Chinese Culture | 49 | (16) | |
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Creeping Absolutism: Parental Authority as Seen in Early Medieval Tales of Filial Offspring | 65 | (28) | |
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Virtue (de), Talent (cai), and Beauty (se): Authoring a Full-fledged Womanhood in Lienüzhuan (Biographies of Women) | 93 | (24) | |
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Aspects of Authority in Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West | 117 | (34) | |
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Establishing Authority through Scholarship: Ruan Yuan and the Xuehaitang Academy | 151 | (20) | |
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Intellectual and Political Controversies over Authority in China: 1898-1922 | 171 | (44) | |
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Ought We Throw the Confucian Baby Out with the Authoritarian Bathwater?: A Critical Inquiry into Lu Xun's Anti-Confucian Identity | 215 | (32) | |
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List of Contributors | 247 | (4) | |
Index | 251 |