SKU:
9760980063921
ISBN:
9780980063929
A Late Ming Vision For Local Community: Ritual, Law, And Social Ferment In The Proposals Of Guan Zhidao ( Center For Early Modern History )
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Guan Zhidao (1536 1608) was a Confucian thinker who was anxious to counter the moral confusion and social decay that accompanied the profound commercialization and urbanization occuring around the end of the Ming Dynasty. As Weisfogel puts it, Guan Zhidao s world was falling apart. Guan Zhidao s response to this crisis was put forward in the form of Proposals for Following the Men of Former Times to Safeguard Customs. Weisfogel s book is the first major scholarly study of Guan Zhidao and the only account in English of a late Ming thinker who has received less attention than many better-known contemporaries.
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