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