Genealogy of the Way: The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in Late Imperial China

Genealogy of the Way: The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in Late Imperial China

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Author/Contributor(s): Wilson, Thomas A
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date: 05/01/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: NEW
Beginning in the late Southern Sung one sect of Confucianism gradually came to dominate literati culture and, by the Ming dynasty, was canonized as state orthodoxy. This book is a historical and textual critique of the construction of an ideologically exclusionary conception of the Confucian tradition, and how claims to possession of the truth-the Tao-came to serve power.