Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-28008-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 116, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: Sinica Leidensia

In Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming, George Israel offers an account of this influential Neo-Confucian philosopher’s official career and military campaigns. While his contribution to China’s intellectual history and the outlines of his political life are well known, the relation between his thought and what he did in his capacity as a Ming official has been given less attention.
Prior writing on Wang Yangming has passed judgment on his ideas by either idealizing or condemning him for how he treated those he was assigned to govern. Through a detailed reconstruction of his career in the context of issues of empire, ethnicity, and violence, George Israel demonstrates that the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

Zielgruppe

All interested in the history of Late Imperial China and Neo-Confucian thought, and specialists and students more specifically concerned with the political and military history of the Ming Dynasty and Wang Yangming.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Israel, George L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Konfuzianismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

George Lawrence Israel, Ph.D. (2008), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Middle Georgia State College. He has published several articles on Chinese history.