The Sage and the People
The Confucian Revival in China
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 September 2015
- ISBN 9780190258139
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 160x236x25 mm
- Weight 720 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 66 illustrations 0
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Short description:
After a century during which Confucianism was viewed by academics as a relic of the imperial past or, at best, a philosophical resource, its striking comeback in Chinese society today raises a number of questions about the role that this ancient tradition might play in a contemporary context.
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After a century during which Confucianism was viewed by academics as a relic of the imperial past or, at best, a philosophical resource, its striking comeback in Chinese society today raises a number of questions about the role that this ancient tradition--re-appropriated, reinvented, and sometimes instrumentalized--might play in a contemporary context.
The Sage and the People, originally published in French, is the first comprehensive enquiry into the "Confucian revival" that began in China during the 2000s. It explores its various dimensions in fields as diverse as education, self-cultivation, religion, ritual, and politics. Resulting from a research project that the two authors launched together in 2004, the book is based on the extensive anthropological fieldwork they carried out in various parts of China over the next eight years. Sébastien Billioud and Joël Thoraval suspected, despite the prevailing academic consensus, that fragments of the Confucian tradition would sooner or later be re-appropriated within Chinese society and they decided to their hypothesis. The reality greatly exceeded their initial expectations, as the later years of their project saw the rapid development of what is now called the "Confucian revival" or "Confucian renaissance".
Using a cross-disciplinary approach that links the fields of sociology, anthropology, and history, this book unveils the complexity of the "Confucian Revival" and the relations between the different actors involved, in addition to shedding light on likely future developments.
This book will be a valuable addition to the collection of any reader who wants to understand the Confucian revival of the 2000s on both the popular and official level.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 - Jiaohua: The Confucian revival in China as an educative project
Chapter 1. Confucian education during the 20th century: A retrospective outlook
Chapter 2. The new institutionalization of Confucian education
Chapter 3. A modern anti-intellectualism: The body, the child, the people
Part 2 - Anshen liming or the religious dimension of Confucianism
Chapter 4. "The varieties of religious experience"
Chapter 5. Questioning modern categories
Chapter 6. The quest for the recognition of Confucian religion
Part 3 - Between rites and politics: Lijiao
Chapter 7. The Confucius cult: Historical retrospective
Chapter 8. Qufu, 2007
Chapter 9. The use and abuse of Confucius
Chapter 10. Between religious ritual and political ceremonial: Cosmology and national state
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
