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This book explains the general intellectual climate of the early Ch'ing period, and the political and cultural characteristics of the Ch'ing regime at the time. Professor Huang brings to life the book's central characters, Li Fu and the three great emperors - K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng, and Chien-lung - whom he served. Although the author's main concern is to explain the contributions of Li Fu to the Lu-Wang school of Confucianism, he also gives a clearly written account of the Lu-Wang and Ch'eng-Chu schools from the twelfth century to the eighteenth. In a clear, succinct style, Huang explains the historical differences between the Ch'eng-Chu and Lu-Wang schools without sacrificing the subtleties of either. The book culminates in a discussion of the hero-emperor K'ang-hsi's appropriation of the 'Tradition of the Way' from his intellectual officials, which denied them their traditional role as moral censors and critics of the emperor's exercise of authority.

Philosophy, Chinese --- Neo-Confucianism. --- Political science --- Philosophie chinoise --- Néo-confucianisme --- Science politique --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Li, Fu, --- China --- Chine --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- S12/0215 --- S12/0450 --- -Neo-Confucianism --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Philosophy of language --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Ming, Qing: later Confucian teachings, Sacred Edicts (incl. Wang Fuzhi, Yan Yuan, Li Kong, Dai Dongyuan) --- Li, Fu --- S12/0240 --- S12/0216 --- -Confucianism --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Chinese philosophy --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Chinese philosophy: Qing --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Political philosophy --- Philosophy --- 李复 --- 李孚 --- 李富 --- 李復 --- 李甫 --- 犁夫 --- -Administration --- Confucianism --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- -Philosophy

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Neo-Confucianism --- Ethics --- History.

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Temples dedicated to Confucius are found throughout China and across East Asia, dating back over two thousand years. These sacred and magnificent sanctuaries hold deep cultural and political significance.This book brings together studies from Chin-shing Huang’s decades-long research into Confucius temples that individually and collectively consider Confucianism as religion. Huang uses the Confucius temple to explore Confucianism both as one of China’s “three religions” (with Buddhism and Daoism) and as a cultural phenomenon, from the early imperial era through the present day. He argues for viewing Confucius temples as the holy ground of Confucianism, symbolic sites of sacred space that represent a point of convergence between political and cultural power. Their complex histories shed light on the religious nature and character of Confucianism and its status as official religion in imperial China. Huang examines topics such as the political and intellectual elements of Confucian enshrinement, how Confucius temples were brought into the imperial ritual system from the Tang dynasty onward, and why modern Chinese largely do not think of Confucianism as a religion.A nuanced analysis of the question of Confucianism as religion, Confucianism and Sacred Space offers keen insights into Confucius temples and their significance in the intertwined intellectual, political, social, and religious histories of imperial China.

Temples, Confucian --- Confucian temples --- Confucianism --- Espace sacré --- Temple --- Architecture religieuse --- Confucius --- Chine