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Nobility and Civility : Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674030671
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nobility and CivilityDDC classification:
  • 303.34095
LOC classification:
  • JQ36
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Confucius' Noble Person -- 2. The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama -- 3. Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility -- 4. Shotoku'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.
Summary: De Bary argues that the concepts of leadership and public morality in the major Asian traditions--Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, and Japanese--offer a valuable perspective on humanizing the globalization process.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Confucius' Noble Person -- 2. The Noble Paths of Buddha and Rama -- 3. Buddhist Spirituality and Chinese Civility -- 4. Shotoku'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.

De Bary argues that the concepts of leadership and public morality in the major Asian traditions--Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, and Japanese--offer a valuable perspective on humanizing the globalization process.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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