Beginning in the late Southern Sung one sect of Confucianism gradually came to dominate literati culture and, by the Ming dynasty, was canonized as state orthodoxy. This book is a historical and textual critique of the construction of an ideologically exclusionary conception of the Confucian tradition, and how claims to possession of the truth-the Tao-came to serve power.
- ISBN10 0804724253
- ISBN13 9780804724258
- Publish Date 1 May 1995
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Stanford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 388
- Language English