Ideology of power and power of ideology in early China
By: edited by Yuri Pines, Paul R. Goldin, Martin Kern
Series: Sinica Leidensia -- volume 124
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004299290; 9789004299337
Subjects: Politics and government; Ideology; Political culture; Political science; Power (Social sciences); History
Description: "Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China explores ancient Chinese political thought during the centuries surrounding the formation of the empire in 221 BCE. The individual chapters examine the ideology and practices of legitimation, views of rulership, conceptualizations of ruler-minister relations, economic thought, and the bureaucratic administration of commoners. The contributors analyze the formation of power relations from various angles, ranging from artistic expression to religious ideas, political rhetoric, and administrative action. They demonstrate the interrelatedness of historiography and political ideology and show how the same text served both to strengthen the ruler's authority and moderate his excesses. Together, the chapters highlight the immense complexity of ancient Chinese political thought, and the deep tensions running within it. Contributors include Scott Cook, Joachim Gentz, Paul R. Goldin, Romain Graziani, Martin Kern, Liu Zehua, Luo Xinhui, Yuri Pines, Roel Sterckx, and Charles Sanft"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Ideology and power in early China / Yuri Pines; title: Part one. The foundations : unity, heaven, and ancestral models; title: Representations of regional diversity during the eastern Zhou dynasty / Paul R. Goldin; title: Omens and politics : the Zhou concept of the mandate of heaven as seen in the Chengwu manuscript / Luo Xinhui; title: Long live the King! : the ideology of power between ritual and morality in the Gongyang Zhuan / Joachim Gentz; title: Language and the ideology of kingship in the "Canon of Yao" / Martin Kern; title: Part two. Textual battles : rulers, ministers, and the people; title: Monarch and minister : the problematic partnership in the building of absolute monarchy in the Han Feizi / Romain Graziani; title: The changing role of the minister in the Warring States : evidence from the Yanzi Chunqiu / Scott Cook; title: Ideologies of the peasant and merchant in Warring States China / Roel Sterckx; title: Population records from Liye : ideology in practice / Charles Sanft; title: Epilogue: Ideological authority in China : past and present; title: Political and intellectual authority : the concept of the "sage-monarch" and its modern fate / Liu Zehua.