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Genealogy of the Way: The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in Late Imperial China Thomas A. Wilson
Genealogy of the Way: The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in Late Imperial China
Thomas A. Wilson
Beginning in the Southern Sung, one Confucian sect 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 process by which claims to exclusive possession of the truth came to serve power.
390 pages, Illustrations, geneal.tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 1, 1995 |
| ISBN13 | 9780804724258 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 388 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 30 mm · 730 g |