Confucian and Taiping 'Heaven

The Political Implications of Clashing Religious Concepts

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ID2106462
AuthorsJoseph R Levenson (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year1962
Volume4
Issue4
Pages436-453
Publication date1962-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500001390
OpenAlexW1982834930
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited10

In 'The Suggestiveness of Vestiges: Confucianism and Monarchy at the Last', I wrote of the draining of the monarchical mystique in modern China. Vestigial monarchism, it seemed to me, was related to an equally vestigial Confucianism - really related, that is, not just parallel in some modern course of corrosion. The relation was the thing, a novel one of untroubled association (in a common, new ideology of 'national spirit'), unpromising departure from what seemed, more and more, the devious, uncertain, tense partnership of pre-Western days. The loss of this ambivalence, this Confucian-monarchical attraction-repulsion, comprised the Chinese state's attrition. And if in its time that traditional state was a prodigiously hardy perennial, perhaps its vitality, in a truly Nietzschean sense, was the measure of its tolerance of tensions: their release was the bureaucratic monarchy's death

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Heaven · Ideology · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Theology · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies

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