Confucianism and the Chinese Self

Re-examining Max Weber's China

Bibliographic Data

ID5955047
AuthorsJack Barbalet (0000-0002-4212-7929, Australian Catholic University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Publication date2017-10-05
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueConfucianism and the Chinese Self (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherSpringer Singapore (PUBLISHER • SG)
DOI10.1007/978-981-10-6289-6
OpenAlexW2763825496
ISBN9789811062896
LanguageEN
Citations received14

Setting the context for the upheavals and transformations of contemporary China, this text provides a re-assessment of Max Weber's celebrated sociology of China. Returning to the sources drawn on by Weber in The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, it offers an informed account of the Chinese institutions discussed and a concise discussion of Weber's writings on 'the rise of modern capitalism'. Notably it subjects Weber's argument to critical scrutiny, arguing that he drew upon sources which infused the central European imagination of the time, constructing a sense of China in Europe, whilst European writers were constructing a particular image of imperial China and its Confucian framework. Re-examining Weber's discussion of the role of the individual in Confucian thought and the subordination, in China, of the interests of the individual to those of the political community and the ancestral clan, this book offers a cutting edge contribution to the continuing debate on Weber's RoC in East Asia today, against the background of the rise of modern capitalism in the "little dragons" of Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea, and the "big dragons" of Japan and the People's Republic of China

Argument (complex analysis · Buddhism · Capitalism · China · Chinese society · Context (archaeology · Political science · Politics · Scrutiny · Sociology · Taoism · Theology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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