Lecture 10 The End of of Neo-Confucianism and The Beginning of the Intellectualism of the Evidential Research
- The Rule of the Manchu (1664-1911)
- “Discussing heart-and mind and human nature when the world is in peace, [the Neo-Confucians] pay their deaths to the ruler when the nation is in danger."
- The control system: Manchu positions and Han positions
- The memorial system
- The perfect ruler: Qianlong
- Political Ideology Subscribed by the Court
- Fixed principles and fix hierarchy
- Criticizing Wang learning as the main factor for the decline of the Ming Dynasty
- Daily life practice and governance
- Restore the Sage's Teaching through Another Channel
- The switch to book knowledge: library and all kinds of textual criticism
- The evidential research
- Return to the Five Classics
- The textual tradition as a whole
- The End of Civil Service Examination (1905): The End of Confucianism?
- the invasion of the western tide
- "The warships are strong and the canons are powerful."
- "The western learning as utility and the Chinese learning as substance.”
- the disposition of the political and social structure which supported the existence of Confucianism