Confucian Cultures of Authority

Index

Index 251 Africa, 8 American Civil Liberties Union, 18 Ames, Roger, 21, 43n2, 49, 132, 225, 238 Amnesty International, 18 The Analects of Confucius: xii–xiii, 10, 99–100, 227, 228, 231, 239 ancestor worship, 24–25 Ankang city [China], 57–58 Antigone, 72–73, 84n34 Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 110 Arendt, Hannah, 168n33, 172 Aristotle, 110, 193 Bakunin, Mikhail, 180 Bantly, Francisca Cho, 118, 127, 142 Beijing, 155 Belgrade, bombing of Chinese embassy in, 216 Bentham, Jeremy, 192 Bill of Rights. See United States, Constitution Bismarck, Otto von, 176 “Black Cat or White Cat” theory, 55 Bluntschli, Johann, 177, 201–02n34 Bodde, Derk, 41 Bol, Peter, 153 Bornhak, Conrad, 177 British Petroleum Company, 9 Buddhism, 117–18, 146n45, 207n72, 237, 242n32 cai [talent], value of for women, 93– 94, 103–07 Cai E, 209n89 Cantonese elite, 158–59 Carlyle, Thomas, 201–02n34 Catherine II, 179 Chang’an [ancient Chinese capital], 126, 127 Chang, Hao, 173 Chen Dajing, 159 Chen Duxiu, 183–86, 188–91, 195–96, 210n93, 235 Cheng, Chung-ying, 51, 53 Cheng Yi, 153, 154 Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. See Song Learning Chen Li, xiv, 159–60, 161 Chen prefecture, 76 Chen Tianhua, 182, 204n52 Chen Xuan, 70 chi [emperor’s orders], 71 China, 1, 9; contemporary politics of, 55–60, 216; economic history of, 198–99n16; familial authority in, xi– xii, 65–87, 193–94, 230–33; higher education in, 60–62, 151–69; history of, 24–26, 171–214, 217–45; women’s role in, 93–115, 192–93, 216, 236–37 Chinatowns, 176 Chinese Communist Party, 190, 219 Chinese Communist Party Committee Office, 57 The Chinese Revolutionary Party, 178, 182, 203n42 Chomsky, Noam, 4 Chu [Chinese heroine], 99–100 Ch’ü, T’ung-tsu, 40, 65 The Classic of Familial Deference, 230, 232 Clunas, Craig, 158, 164 Cohong, 163 252 Index Confucianism: critiques of, 184–89, 191, 193–94, 215–40; familial authority in, 67–87, 193–94, 230–32; hierarchy in, 27–29; history of, 153– 55; jian [remonstrance] in, xvi, 215– 40; models of personhood in, x, 1–2, 9–17, 223–24, 238–39; political authority in, 21–45, 152–54, 180, 182; scholarly authority in, 151–69; vis-à-vis Western philosophy, 17–18, 103, 110–11, 114–15n47, 190, 220– 21, 242n35; women’s role in, xii–xiii, 93–115, 236–37. See also Neo-Confucianism Confucius: biographical information, 96, 122, 153; direct quotes of, 10–16, 25, 95, 230–31, 232, 233; others’ interpretations of, 17, 26, 37, 44n11– 12, 68, 70, 193–94, 195, 200n25, 219, 220–21, 227, 228, 229, 234, 239. See also Confucianism Coordinated Management of Meaning, 50 Cromwell, Oliver, 173 Cua, Anthony, 26, 43n4 Dai Jitao, 178 dao [the way], 10, 43n3; women’s interpretation of, 104; in literature, 120, 142; vis-à-vis jian, 221, 227–30, 233 Daoism, 117–18, 186–87, 237, 242n32 de [virtue]: in leadership, 224; 226–27, 229 234; and politics, 185; value of for women, 93–103, 109–10, 112n2; vis-à-vis jian, 228, 230 democracy, 3; China’s (un)preparedness for, 179–89, 195– 96; in China, 215 democracy movement, China, 57, 214n126, 219 demons, 136–37 Deng, Xiaoping, 55, 57 Dewey, John, 221 Dillon, Robin S., 102 Ding Lan, 69, 74 Dong Guodong, 86n54 Dowager Empress Ci Xi, 234 Du Fu, 161 Eastern Han dynasty, 71–72, 76 education. See China, higher education in Einstein, Albert, 211n100 elderly, care of, 16–17 Elman, Benjamin, 166n13 England, 173–74, 200n25 “enlightened despotism,” xiv, 174–79 The Enlightenment, 222 Emperor, Chinese, role of, 223–24 Eno, Robert, 34–35, 44n8 Escarra, Jean, 44n13 evidential research. See Han Learning fa [penal law], 23, 37–41, 45n16 face. See lianmian Facism, 9 Falun Gong, 216 familial deference, 11–12, 15. See also China, familial authority in; xiao filial piety. See China, familial authority in; familial deference; xiao Filmer, Robert, 198n15 Fingarette, Herbert, 17, 167n16, 167–68n28 “first generation” rights, 4–6, 8–9 focus/field model, 21–22 France, 175, 181, 188, 190, 195, 201–02n34 Frederick the Great, 176, 179 freedom, x, 1–2, 3, 217. See also human rights free speech, 215–16 Fujian province, 159, 163 Fu Sinian, 190 gongyi [public righteousness], 101–03 Gao Qiang, 56–57 Index 253 Gao Yihan, 189, 191–92, 207n70–71 Germany, 175–76, 179, 192, 205n60 globalization, vii–viii, 61 Gonggong [Chinese swordmaker in story], 105 Goodnow, Frank J...