Confucian Concord
Subtitle: Reform, Utopia and Global Teleology in Kang Youwei's &lt;i>Datong Shu&lt;/i>
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9789004434448
Subjects: Political science
Description: "In Confucian Concord, Federico Brusadelli offers an intellectual analysis of the Datong Shu. Written by Kang Youwei (1858-1927) and conceived as his most esoteric and comprehensive legacy to posterity, the book was eventually published only posthumously, in 1935, being "too advanced for the times" in the author's own opinion. Connecting the book to the author's intellectual biography and framing it within the intellectual and political debate of the time, Brusadelli investigates the conceptual and philosophical implications of Kang's 'global prophecy', showing how an apparently 'utopian' and 'escapist' piece of literature was actually an attempt to save (at least ideally) the imperial political order, updating the traditional Confucian universalism to a new, 'modern' world"--