Confucian China and its Modern Fate

First published in 1964

These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume Two includes:

· The Republic: Confucianism and Monarchism interwoven

· Confucianism and Monarchy: The basic confrontation

· The evolution of the Confucian Bureaucratic personality

· The limits of despotic control

· Monarch and people

· The Taiping Relation to Confucianism

· The Japanese and Chinese monarchical mystiques