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