- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Author’s Preface
- Editorial Note
- Abbreviations
- Chronology of Dynasties
-
1. Some Preliminary Observations on the Rise of Qing Confucian Intellectualism -
2. Dai Zhen and the Zhu Xi Tradition -
3. Dai Zhen’s Choice Between Philosophy and Philology -
4. Zhang Xuecheng Versus Dai Zhen -
5. Qing Confucianism -
6. The Two Worlds of Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) -
7. Sun Yat-sen’s Doctrine and Traditional Chinese Culture -
8. The Radicalization of China in the Twentieth Century -
9. Neither Renaissance nor Enlightenment -
10. Modernization Versus Fetishism of Revolution in Twentieth-Century China -
11. The Idea of Democracy and the Twilight of the Elite Culture in Modern China -
12. China’s New Wave of Nationalism -
13. Democracy, Human Rights, and Confucian Culture -
14. Changing Conceptions of National History in Twentieth-Century China -
15. Reflections on Chinese Historical Thinking -
16. Modern Chronological Biography and the Conception of Historical Scholarship -
17. The Study of Chinese History -
18. Confucianism and China’s Encounter with the West in Historical Perspective -
19. Clio’s New Cultural Turn and the Rediscovery of Tradition in Asia - Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Index
Democracy, Human Rights, and Confucian Culture
Democracy, Human Rights, and Confucian Culture
- Chapter:
- (p.260) 13. Democracy, Human Rights, and Confucian Culture
- Source:
- Chinese History and Culture
- Author(s):
Ying-shih Yü
, Josephine Chiu-Duke, Michael S. Duke- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
This article argues that the tradition of Chinese Confucianism is compatible with Western concepts of democracy and human rights in a general sense. Especially since the first Chinese advocates of these Western values were the most well-known Chinese Confucian scholars. It also takes issue with Samuel P. Huntington’s ideas about “Confucianism” and surveys Chinese thought in terms of rights, duties and dignity from the Confucian text Zuozhuan to the present.
Keywords: minzhu, democracy, human rights, humanity, human dignity, duty, Confucianism
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Author’s Preface
- Editorial Note
- Abbreviations
- Chronology of Dynasties
-
1. Some Preliminary Observations on the Rise of Qing Confucian Intellectualism -
2. Dai Zhen and the Zhu Xi Tradition -
3. Dai Zhen’s Choice Between Philosophy and Philology -
4. Zhang Xuecheng Versus Dai Zhen -
5. Qing Confucianism -
6. The Two Worlds of Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) -
7. Sun Yat-sen’s Doctrine and Traditional Chinese Culture -
8. The Radicalization of China in the Twentieth Century -
9. Neither Renaissance nor Enlightenment -
10. Modernization Versus Fetishism of Revolution in Twentieth-Century China -
11. The Idea of Democracy and the Twilight of the Elite Culture in Modern China -
12. China’s New Wave of Nationalism -
13. Democracy, Human Rights, and Confucian Culture -
14. Changing Conceptions of National History in Twentieth-Century China -
15. Reflections on Chinese Historical Thinking -
16. Modern Chronological Biography and the Conception of Historical Scholarship -
17. The Study of Chinese History -
18. Confucianism and China’s Encounter with the West in Historical Perspective -
19. Clio’s New Cultural Turn and the Rediscovery of Tradition in Asia - Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Index
