Where does Neo-Confucianism a movement that from the twelfth to
the seventeenth centuries profoundly influenced the way people
understood the world and responded to it fit into our story of
China s history?
This interpretive, at times polemical, inquiry into the
Neo-Confucian engagement with the literati as the social and
political elite, local society, and the imperial state during the
Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties is also a reflection on the role of
the middle period in China s history. The book argues that as
Neo-Confucians put their philosophy of learning into practice in
local society, they justified a new social ideal in which society
at the local level was led by the literati with state recognition
and support. The later imperial order, in which the state accepted
local elite leadership as necessary to its own existence, survived
even after Neo-Confucianism lost its hold on the center of
intellectual culture in the seventeenth century but continued as
the foundation of local education. It is the contention of this
book that Neo-Confucianism made that order possible.
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