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Le sage et le peuple : le renouveau confucéen en Chine
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ISSN: 21165467 ISBN: 9782271081544 2271081548 Year: 2014 Publisher: Paris: CNRS,

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Que signifie le « retour du confucianisme » dans une Chine redevenue puissance mondiale ? Alorsque les études existantes privilégient les discours idéologiques et les débats intellectuels, ce livre prend pour la première fois comme point de départ l'émergence, dans les années 2000, d'un « confucianisme populaire » qui se distingue des initiatives officielles. À partir d'enquêtes de terrain menées sur près d' une décennie, il étudie le développement de nouvelles pratiques - réappropriation des textes classiques, culture du corps, création d un néoritualisme...-, dans des contextes aussi variés que les écoles et les universités, les temples et les mouvements religieux, les entreprises et les administrations. En les analysants dans la perspective plus vaste d une remise en cause en Chine des grands récits modernisateurs ayant dominé le XXe siècle, Le Sage et le peuple jette une lumière nouvelle sur l articulation du politique et du religieux dans la Chine contemporaine. À travers l'observation des cultes d'État mis en place sur le continent et à Taïwan, c'est aussi la question du destin contemporain de la tradition cosmologique chinoise qui se trouve posée


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The Confucian-Legalist State : A new theory of Chinese history
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ISBN: 9780199351732 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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"The Confucian-Legalist State proposes a new theory of social change and, in doing so, analyzes the patterns of Chinese history, such as the rise and persistence of a unified empire, the continuous domination of Confucianism, and China's impossibility to develop industrial capitalism without being compelled by Western imperialism" "In the The Confucian-Legalist State, Dingxin Zhao offers a radically new analysis of Chinese imperial history from the eleventh century BCE to the fall of the Qing dynasty. This study first uncovers the factors that explain how, and why, China developed into a bureaucratic empire under the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE. It then examines the political system that crystallized during the Western Han dynasty, a system that drew on China's philosophical traditions of Confucianism and Legalism. Despite great changes in China's demography, religion, technology, and socioeconomic structures, this Confucian-Legalist political system survived for over two millennia. Yet, it was precisely because of the system's resilience that China, for better or worse, did not develop industrial capitalism as Western Europe did, notwithstanding China's economic prosperity and technological sophistication beginning with the Northern Song dynasty. In examining the nature of this political system, Zhao offers a new way of viewing Chinese history, one that emphasizes the importance of structural forces and social mechanisms in shaping historical dynamics. As a work of historical sociology, The Confucian-Legalist State aims to show how the patterns of Chinese history were not shaped by any single force, but instead by meaningful activities of social actors which were greatly constrained by, and at the same time reproduced and modified, the constellations of political, economic, military, and ideological forces. This book thus offers a startling new understanding of long-term patterns of Chinese history, one that should trigger debates for years to come among historians, political scientists, and sociologists"

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