First published in 1964

These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume Two includes:

• The Republic: Confucianism and Monarchism interwoven
• Confucianism and Monarchy: The basic confrontation
• The evolution of the Confucian Bureaucratic personality
• The limits of despotic control
• Monarch and people
• The Taiping Relation to Confucianism
• The Japanese and Chinese monarchical mystiques

Joseph R Levenson

Preface, Joseph R Levenson; Part 1 Confucian China and its Modern Fate, Joseph R Levenson; Part 2 The Suggestiveness of Vestiges: Confucianism and Monarchy at the Last (I), Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 1 The Draining of the Monarchical Mystique, Joseph R Levenson; Part 3 Tension and Vitality, Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 2 Confucianism and Monarchy: the Basic Confrontation, Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 3 The Evolution of the Confucian Bureaucratic Personality, Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 4 Confucianism and Confucianism: the Basic Confrontation, Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 5 Confucianism and Monarchy: the Limits of Despotic Control, Joseph R Levenson; Part 4 The Break in the Line of Tension, Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 6 Bureaucracy's Long Imperviousness to Social Revolution: the Role of Confucianism, Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 7 Bureaucracy's Vulnerability: the Intellectual Point of attack, Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 8 Taipings Storm the Confucian Heaven, Joseph R Levenson; Part 5 The Vestige of Suggestiveness: Confucianism and Monarchy at the Last (II), Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 9 The Making of an Anachronism, Joseph R Levenson; Chapter 10 Conclusion: The Japanese and Chinese Monarchical Mystiques, Joseph R Levenson;