A Confucian Constitutional Order (eBook)

How China's Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future

Jiang Qing (Autor)

Daniel A. Bell, Ruiping Fan (Herausgeber)

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2012
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9781400844845 (ISBN)

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Jiang Qing is the founder and director of the Yangming Confucian Academy in Guizhou, China. His books include Political Confucianism and Life, Faith, and Humane Politics.

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What a Confucian constitutional government might look like in China's political futureAs China continues to transform itself, many assume that the nation will eventually move beyond communism and adopt a Western-style democracy. But could China develop a unique form of government based on its own distinct traditions? Jiang Qing-China's most original, provocative, and controversial Confucian political thinker-says yes. In this book, he sets out a vision for a Confucian constitutional order that offers a compelling alternative to both the status quo in China and to a Western-style liberal democracy. A Confucian Constitutional Order is the most detailed and systematic work on Confucian constitutionalism to date.Jiang argues against the democratic view that the consent of the people is the main source of political legitimacy. Instead, he presents a comprehensive way to achieve humane authority based on three sources of political legitimacy, and he derives and defends a proposal for a tricameral legislature that would best represent the Confucian political ideal. He also puts forward proposals for an institution that would curb the power of parliamentarians and for a symbolic monarch who would embody the historical and transgenerational identity of the state. In the latter section of the book, four leading liberal and socialist Chinese critics-Joseph Chan, Chenyang Li, Wang Shaoguang, and Bai Tongdong-critically evaluate Jiang's theories and Jiang gives detailed responses to their views.A Confucian Constitutional Order provides a new standard for evaluating political progress in China and enriches the dialogue of possibilities available to this rapidly evolving nation. This book will fascinate students and scholars of Chinese politics, and is essential reading for anyone concerned about China's political future.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2012
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton-China Series
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton-China Series
• Übersetzer: Edmund Ryden
• Zusatzinfo: 5 line illus. 1 table.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: abdication • academician • Academy • Analects • ancient China • anthropocentric heaven • aristocracy • authoritarianism • Buddhism • Capitalism • capitalist modernization • Chiang Kai-shek • China • Chinese Culture • Chinese philosophy • Christianity • Civility • communism • Communist Party of China • Confucian constitutionalism • Confucian debaters • Confucianism • Confucian political ideal • Confucian politics • Confucian way • Confucius • Constitution • Constitutionalism • Constitutional Monarchy • Criticism • Critics • Cultural revolution • Daniel A. Bell • deed • Democracy • Deng Xiaoping • Doctrine • Dong Zhongshu • elitism • Feng Youlan • Filial Piety • Forms of Government • Gongyang Commentary • Gongyang school • Governance • Government • head of state • heavenХarthШumanity triad • historical legitimacy • House of Ru • Huang Zongxi • humane authority • Ideology • Institution • Jiang Qing • Kang Youwei • Legislation • Legitimacy • Legitimacy (political) • Leveling (philosophy) • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Liu Bei • mandate of heaven • maoism • Marxism • Mencius • Meritocracy • metaphysical position • Modernity • Monarchy • Morality • national identity • neo-Confucians • new Confucianism • Obedience (human behavior) • overlapping consensus • Parliamentarians • parliamentary system • Philosopher • Philosophy • piety • pluralism • pluralistic society • Policy Making • Political Institutions • Political legitimacy • Political Liberalism • political order • Political Philosophy • Political power • political reality • Political Science • political structure • Political System • Politician • Politics • popular sovereignty • popular will • Privatization • Protestantism • public reason • Religion • Religious War • Republicanism • right-wing politics • Ruler • Scholar-official • scholar-officials • Secularization • self-cultivation • separation of church and state • Separation of Powers • Shang dynasty • social conflict • Social Contract • Social Welfare • Sortition • Sovereignty • State (polity) • State Religion • symbolic monarch • Symbolic Power • Taliban-style theocracy • Taoism • theocracy • Tian • Tianxia • Totalitarianism • transcendent heaven • transcendent values • trans-generational identity • tricameral parliament • Universal Suffrage • Way of the Humane Authority • Western constitutionalism • Western Culture • Western liberal thinkers • Western-style democracy • Western thought • Western World • Xunzi • Xunzi (book) • Yan Xuetong • Zhang Zai • Zhou dynasty
• ISBN-13: 9781400844845 / 9781400844845