Individualism in Early China: Human Agency and the Self in Thought and Politics 9780824860677

Conventional wisdom has it that the concept of individualism was absent in early China. In this uncommon study of the se

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Individualism in Early China: Human Agency and the Self in Thought and Politics 9780824860677

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter one. Individual Agency and Universal, Centralized Authority in Early Mohist Writings
Chapter two. Centralizing Control
Chapter three. Decentralizing Control and Naturalizing Cosmic Agency
Chapter four. Two Prongs of the Debate
Chapter five. Servants of the Self and Empire
Chapter six. Conclusion
Postscript: A Note on Chinese Individualism, Human Rights, and the Asian Values Debate
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author

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