This book examines egalitarian social ideals and institutions that
arose in preindustrial China and England, and in the process,
uncovers China’s forgotten role in the history of social justice
debate and legislation during the eighteenth century. Drawing on a
wide range of visual and documentary evidence, the author shows
that many prominent individuals in both England and China adopted
comparable strategies as a logical response to excesses of
privilege and arbitrary power, with educated but non-noble persons
taking advantage of print culture, a more literate population, an
expanded art market, public spaces and other familiar ‘early
modern’ developments to interrogate the system of inherited
privilege and promote a more meritocratic society. This shared
experience created common ground for transformative exchange
between the two great traditions during the eighteenth century. By
providing a more global account of what we call Western values, the
book shows that early modern China and England had far more in
common than is normally supposed, and thus challenges claims on the
right and the left that the people of China lacked a concept of
social justice and that China’s cultural legacy should be treated
as exceptional in regard to human rights.
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