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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... Japan 147 Citizen and Subject in Modern Japan 168 9 " The People Renewed " in Twentieth - Century China 203 Epilogue 224 Notes 235 Works Cited 241 Index 245 Preface The nature of true leadership; its relation to learning, Contents.
... 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.
... Japan and Ko- rea. In doing so I have tried to deal cross-culturally with movements of thought as they encountered similar stages or challenges in other historical situations. This approach then does not always follow consecutive linear ...
... Japan in 1916, he prefaced his analysis of constitutional structures by pointing to the difference be- tween formal enactments and the political culture needed to sustain them: Whether or not constitutional government will work well is ...
... Japan when civic mindedness on the part of the people as a whole, and not just virtue ascribed to the leadership elite, had become an issue as political democracy was advanced to replace an earlier, more aristocratic and authoritarian ...
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 |