Confucian Cultures of Authority

Contents

Contents Introduction: Confucian Cultures of Authority vii Peter D. Hershock and Roger T. Ames Two Loci of Authority: Autonomous Individuals and Related Persons 1 Henry Rosemont Jr. Intimate Authority: The Rule of Ritual in Classical Confucian Political Discourse 21 Tao Jiang The Wei (Positioning)-Ming (Naming)-Lianmian (Face)Guanxi (Relationship)-Renqing (Humanized Feelings) Complex in Contemporary Chinese Culture 49 Wenshan Jia Creeping Absolutism: Parental Authority as Seen in Early Medieval Tales of Filial Offspring 65 Keith N. Knapp Virtue 德 ( (de), Talent 才 ( (cai), and Beauty 色 ( (se): Authoring a Full-fledged Womanhood in Lienüzhuan 列女傳 (Biographies of Women) 93 Robin R. Wang Aspects of Authority in Wu Cheng’en’s Journey to the West 117 Roberta E. Adams Establishing Authority through Scholarship: Ruan Yuan and 151 the Xuehaitang Academy Steven B. Miles Intellectual and Political Controversies over Authority in China: 1898–1922 171 Lawrence R. Sullivan v vi Contents Ought We Throw the Confucian Baby Out with the Authoritarian Bathwater?: A Critical Inquiry into Lu Xun’s Anti-Confucian Identity 215 Virginia Suddath List of Contributors 247 Index 251 ...