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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A collection of translated articles mostly from the 1940s and 1950s. That might not sound too promising, but there are many insights here that are neither esoteric nor outdated. The author nicely portrays the unique aspect of Chinese imperial government: "rule by scholars". Good chapters on Chinese historiography emphasize the dominance of the scholarly perspective in official histories and the inability of western sinologists to bypass this perspective. The later essays deal mostly with specific Chinese philosophers, so they are probably of less interest to the general reader. But this is in any case a very informative supplementary work if you're reading up on Chinese history. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Born in Hungary, trained in Chinese studies in Germany, Etienne Balazs was, until his sudden and premature death in 1963, a professor at the Sorbonne and an intellectual leader among European specialists on China. In this book, a selection of Dr. Balazs' essays are presented for the first time in English. Arthur F. Wright, professor of history at Yale, and John K. Fairbank, professor of history at Harvard, have written a joint Preface and Mr. Wright has written an Introduction. Scholars and interested laymen will find a rich feast here in essays ranging over two thousand years of China's social, economic, political, and intellectual history. A wealth of data supports the various theories Dr. Balazs develops, in a graceful translation by Hope N. Wright. Because Etienne Balazs regarded the Chinese past not as a curiosity but as a repository of relevant human experience, his essays are significant for anyone interested in the past and future of civilization. "If a reader should disagree with some of the brilliant points, he would still find them challenging and refreshing."--Journal of Asian Studies. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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