Title: Nobility & civility : Asian ideals of leadership and the common good /
Authors: De Bary, Wm. Theodore, 1919-2017.
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Leadership Asia History.; Civil society Asia History.; Leadership Religious aspects Confucianism; Leadership Religious aspects Hinduism; Leadership Religious aspects Buddhism
Abstract: "Nobility and Civility deals with the values of major Asian traditions - Indian, Chinese, and Japanese, ancient and modern - that have influenced the course of history and are still invoked by twenty-first century leaders."--Jacket.
Contents: Confucius' noble person -- The noble paths of Buddha and Rama -- Buddhist spirituality and Chinese civility -- Shōtoku's constitution and the civil order in Early Japan -- Chrysanthemum and civil society in Song China -- Civil and military in Tokugawa Japan -- Citizen and subject in modern Japan -- "The people renewed" in twentieth-century China.