The Long East Asia: The Premodern State and Its Contemporary Impacts

ISBN-13: 9789811987830 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Zhengxu Wang

Opis

This book brings together a range of studies that aim at illustrating the ideas, institutions, historical patterns, and contemporary relevance of the social-political system that existed in the main part of East Asia during the premodern era. This is most often known as the Confucian literati-bureaucratic state, the imperial Chinese bureaucratic state, or the Confucian-Legalist state, that was established and endured most notably in China, but also in several East Asian societies such as Korea, Vietnam, Japan. That state and sociopolitical system also greatly shaped state making in several kingdoms in the region – such as Ryukyu and Dali – which were later merged into larger polities. Illuminating the significance of these historical patterns for today, this book will interest political scientists, historians, philosophers, and the general public.

Spis treści

Chapter 1, Introduction, by Zhengxu Wang, Professor, Department of Political Science, Fudan University

Chapter 2  The Edge of Civilizations, by Tongdong Bai, School of Philosophy,  Fudan University

Chapter 3, War and State Formation in Ancient Korea and Vietnam

Tuong Vu, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon

Chapter 4,  Sovereign’s Dilemma: State Capacity and Ruler Survival in Imperial China

Yuhua Wang, Professor, Harvard University

Chapter 5, “The Great Affairs of State”: Man, the Stat, and Wars During the Warring States Period

Ke Meng, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University

Jilin Zeng, Graduate Student, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University

Chapter 6 Nation Minzu: People, Race, and the Transformation of Tianxia in 19^th and 20^th Centuries China

Zhiguang Yin, Professor, Department of Political Science, Fudan University

Chapter 7 East Asian Monarchy in Comparative Perspective

Tom Ginsberg, Professor, School of Law, University of Chicago 

Chapter 8 Legalist Confucianism: What’s Living and What’s Dead

Daniel A. Bell, Professor and Dean, School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University

O autorze

Zhengxu Wang is Distinguished Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs Fudan University, China. He obtained his Ph.D. in political Science from University of Michigan, and subsequently obtained academic experiences in the National University of Singapore and the UK’s University of Nottingham, where he served as Associate Professor at its School of Contemporary Chinese Studies and Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of its China Policy Institute. 

Blurb

This book brings together a range of studies that aim at illustrating the ideas, institutions, historical patterns, and contemporary relevance of the social-political system that existed in the main part of East Asia during the premodern era. This is most often known as the Confucian literati-bureaucratic state, the imperial Chinese bureaucratic state, or the Confucian-Legalist state, that was established and endured most notably in China, but also in several East Asian societies such as Korea, Vietnam, Japan. That state and sociopolitical system also greatly shaped state making in several kingdoms in the region – such as Ryukyu and Dali – which were later merged into larger polities. Illuminating the significance of these historical patterns for today, this book will interest political scientists, historians, philosophers, and the general public.

​Zhengxu Wang is Distinguished Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs Fudan University, China. He obtained his Ph.D. in political Science from University of Michigan, and subsequently obtained academic experiences in the National University of Singapore and the UK’s University of Nottingham, where he served as Associate Professor at its School of Contemporary Chinese Studies and Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of its China Policy Institute.