Nobility and Civility: Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common GoodHarvard University Press, 1. juuli 2009 - 272 pages Globalization has become an inescapable fact of contemporary life. Some leaders, in both the East and the West, believe that human rights are culture-bound and that liberal democracy is essentially Western, inapplicable to the non-Western world. How can civilized life be preserved and issues of human rights and civil society be addressed if the material forces dominating world affairs are allowed to run blindly, uncontrolled by any cross-cultural consensus on how human values can be given effective expression and direction? |
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... Chinese Civility 44 4 Shōtoku's Constitution and the Civil Order in Early Japan 63 5 Chrysanthemum and Sword Revisited ... China 203 Epilogue 224 Notes 235 Works Cited 241 Index 245 Preface The nature of true leadership; its relation to ...
... China (somewhat like the knights or gentlemen of the medieval West) to put on the shining armor of moral virtue and public learning. It is said: “The shi must be stout-hearted and enduring, for his burden is heavy and his Way is long ...
... China, and Japan. Obviously, my method is highly selective, and of relevant source materials, not at all exhaustive, but I have chosen to work with texts that are well known and either long respected or long contested in xii Preface.
... Chinese, Japanese and Korean Traditions published by Columbia University Press. In the process I have leapt from one ... China to Japan and Ko- rea. In doing so I have tried to deal cross-culturally with movements of thought as they ...
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Contents
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3 Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility | 44 |
4 Shotokus Constitution and the Civil Order in Early Japan | 63 |
5 Chrysanthemum and Sword Revisited | 80 |
6 The New Leadership and Civil Society in Song China | 119 |
7 Civil and Military in Tokugawa Japan | 147 |
8 Citizen and Subject in Modern Japan | 168 |
9 The People Renewed in TwentiethCentury China | 203 |
Epilogue | 224 |
Notes | 235 |
Works Cited | 241 |
Index | 245 |