Ying Zhang

Confucian Image Politics (eBook, ePUB)

Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China

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Produktbeschreibung

During the Ming-Qing transition (roughly from the 1570s to the 1680s), literati-officials in China employed public forms of writing, art, and social spectacle to present positive moral images of themselves and negative images of their rivals. The rise of print culture, the dynastic change, and the proliferating approaches to Confucian moral cultivation together gave shape to this new political culture. Confucian Image Politics considers the moral images of officialsas fathers, sons, husbands, and friendscirculated in a variety of media inside and outside the court. It shows how power negotiations took place through participants' invocations of Confucian ethical ideals in political attacks, self-expression, self-defense, discussion of politically sensitive issues, and literati community rebuilding after the dynastic change. This first book-length study of early modern Chinese politics from the perspective of critical men's history shows how imagesthe Donglin official, the Fushe scholar, the turncoat figurewere created, circulated, and contested to serve political purposes.

The open access publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295806723
• Artikelnr.: 48413569

Autorenporträt

Ying Zhang is associate professor of pre-modern Chinese history at Ohio State University. She received her PhD in history and women's studies from the University of Michigan in 2010. This is her first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Ming-Qing Reign Periods
Introduction
Part One The Late Ming
1. Lists, Literature, and the Imagined Community of Factionalists: The
Donglin
2. Displaying Sincerity: The Fushe
3. A Zhongxiao Celebrity: Huang Daozhou (1585-1646)
Interlude: A Moral Tale of Two Cities, 1644-1645: Beijing and Nanjing
Part Two The Early Qing
4. Moralizing, the Qing Way
5. Conquest, Continuity, and the Loyal Turncoat
Conclusion
Glossary
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index