Zhengyuan Fu

China's Legalists: The Early Totalitarians (eBook, ePUB)

The Early Totalitarians

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This study focuses on the Legalists, an ancient school of Chinese philosophy, which perfected the science of government and art of statecraft. It gives an insight into the style of the Legalists' discourse and its impact on Chinese institutions and practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315285238
• Artikelnr.: 49335984

Autorenporträt

Educated at Yenching and Peking Universities, Zhengyuan Fu has taught and done research at the Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, the University of Michigan, Stanford University, and the University of California at Irvine. He was named first Trustee Professor of Chapman University in 1994 and is concurrently a Research Fellow at the Asian Studies Center of The Claremont Institute. He is the author of Autocratic Tradition and Chinese Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Legalist School
Chapter 3 The Primacy of Power
Chapter 4 Law as the Penal Tool of the Ruler
Chapter 5 Statecraft
Chapter 6 The Impact of the Legalists on the Imperial State
Chapter 7 The Congruence of Legalist Tenets and Orthodox Marxism-Leninism
Chapter 8 Conclusion