DeBlasi Reform in the Balance

The Defense of Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8833-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Presents the intellectual milieu of mid-Tang China, particularly the conservative defense of literary pursuits and cultural tradition in the face of political and social uncertainty.

Autoren/Hrsg.

DeBlasi, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Prelude: The Changing World in Eighty-Century China Intellectual Culture in the Mid-Tang Mainstream
Defining the Mid-Tang Mainstream
Politics and Social Change in the Mid-Tang
The Confucian Revival
The Plan of This Study 1. The Literary Response to the Mid-Tang Crisis Literary Decline and the Roots of Disorder
The Continuing Promise of Literary Pursuits
The Nature of the Literary Man
Completeness and Balance in Mainstream Thought
The Evolution of the Literary Mainstream
Conclusion 2. Literary Education in the Mid-Tang Mainstream Educational Assumptions in Medieval China
Mid-Tang Literary Learning and the Tradition
The Guiding Tradition
Learning Broadly in the Mid-Tang
Alternative Visions
Conclusion 3. Literary Politics in the Mid-Tang The Elements of Mainstream Political Thought
Bai Juyi and His Celin
Liu Yuxi's Accomodative Political Philosophy
Conclusion 4. Moral Choices in the Literary Mainstream Literature and the Self
Models for the Moral Man
Desire and Morality in Quan Deyu's Thought
A Remedy for Desires
Conclusion 5. The Guwen Alternative Guwen Literary Theory
Guwen
Approaches to Learning
The Basis of Morality in Guwen
Ideology
The Politics of Individual Responsibility
Conclusion Final Considerations The Vitality of Tang Literary Conservatism
The Legacy of the Mainstream Notes
Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony DeBlasi is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York.