Yü The Religious Ethic and Mercantile Spirit in Early Modern China

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55360-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

The preeminent historian Ying-shih Yü offers a magisterial examination of religious and cultural influences in the development of China’s early modern economy. He investigates how evolving forms of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism created and promulgated their own concepts of the work ethic from the late seventh century into the Qing dynasty.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yü, Ying-shih

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kwong, Yim-Tze

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Konfuzianismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial Note
Editor’s Introduction
Author’s Introduction
Part I: The Inner-Worldly Reorientation of Chinese Religions
1. New Chan (Japanese pronunciation, Zen) Buddhism
2. New Religious Daoism
Part II: New Developments in the Confucian Ethic
3. The Rise of New Confucianism and the Influence of Chan Buddhism
4. Establishing the “World of Heaven’s Principles”: The “Other World” of New Confucianism
5. “Seriousness Pervading Activity and Tranquility”: The Spiritual Temper of Inner-Worldly Engagement
6. “Regarding the World as One’s Responsibility”: The Inner-Worldly Asceticism of New Confucianism
7. Similarities and Differences Between Zhu Xi and Lu Xiangshan: The Social Significance of the Division in New Confucianism
Part III: The Spiritual Configuration of Chinese Merchants
8. Ming and Qing Confucians’ View of “Securing a Livelihood”
9. A New Theory of the Four Categories of People: Changes in the Relationship Between Scholars and Merchants
10. Merchants and Confucian Learning
11. The Mercantile Ethic
12. “The Way of Business”
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ying-shih Yü is Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies Emeritus at Princeton University. Awarded the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity and the inaugural Tang Prize International Award in Sinology, he has published almost sixty books. His works in English include the two-volume Chinese History and Culture (Columbia, 2016).

Hoyt Cleveland Tillman is professor emeritus of Chinese history at Arizona State University and the Zhu Zhang Visiting Professor at Hunan University’s Yuelu Academy.