Confucian Discourse and Chu Hsi's Ascendancy.

The Journal of the American Oriental Society | April 1, 1994| | Copyright

By Hoyt Cleveland Tillman, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992. Pp. 328.

Historians frequently work from more recent times backwards, trying to account for the ways things turned out. As a result, people, ideas, institutions, events and trends that could plausibly have led to the known outcomes are studied closely, and ones that apparently contributed little to the direction of change are slighted, no matter how important they were considered in their own times. This is perhaps particularly true when the historical outcome is the success of a religious or ...

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