Well known as a scholar of Asian culture, de Bary examines the concepts of self-understanding and self-cultivation in neo-Confucian thought from the 12th to the 17th centuries, in relation to the social, political, and scholarly roles of educated men in late imperial China. Rejecting the notion that the philosophy was static during the period, he c
| ISBN: | 9780231074261 |
| Publication date: | 22nd April 1991 |
| Author: | Wm Theodore De Bary |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 461 pages |
| Series: | Neo-Confucian Studies |
| Genres: |
Cognition and cognitive psychology |