Learning for Oneself Essays on the Individual in Neo-Confucian Thought |
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| Author:
| Bary, Wm. Theodore De |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-07426-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 1991 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $115.00 |
Book Description:
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Well known as a scholar of Asian culture, de Bary examines the concepts of self-understanding and self-cultivation in neo-Confucian thought from the 12th to the 17th centuries, in relation to the social, political, and scholarly roles of educated men in late imperial China. Rejecting the notion that
Well known as a scholar of Asian culture, de Bary examines the concepts of self-understanding and self-cultivation in neo-Confucian thought from the 12th to the 17th centuries, in relation to the social, political, and scholarly roles of educated men in late imperial China. Rejecting the notion that