Nobility and Civility

Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good

Wm. Theodore de Bary

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$26.50 • £21.95 • €24.00

ISBN 9780674015579

Publication Date: 10/15/2004

Short

272 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

World

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HISTORY: Asia: General

Preface
1. Confucius’ Noble Person
2. The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama
3. Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility
4. Shōtoku’s Constitution and the Civil Order in Early Japan
5. Chrysanthemum and Sword Revisited
6. The New Leadership and Civil Society in Song China
7. Civil and Military in Tokugawa Japan
8. Citizen and Subject in Modern Japan
9. “The People Renewed” in Twentieth-Century China
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Awards & Accolades

William Theodore de Bary Is 2016 Tang Prize Laureate in Sinology

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