Chinese Civilization and Bureaucracy

Übersicht

Inhalt

PART I : INSTITUTIONS
1. Significant Aspects of Chinese Society;
2. China as a Permanently Bureaucratic Society;
3. Chinese Feudalism;
4. The Birth of Capitalism in China;
5. Fairs in China;
6. Chinese Towns;
7. Marco Polo in the Capital of China;
8. Evolution of Landownership in Fourth- and Fifth-Century China;
9. Landownership on China from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century.
PART II : HISTORY
10. History as a Guide to Bureaucratic Practice;
11. Tradition and Revolution in China.
PART III : THOUGHT
12. Two Songs by Ts'ao Ts'ao;
13. Political Philosophy and Social Crisis at the End of the Han Dynasty;
14. Nihilistic Thought or Mystical Escapism;
15. The First Chinese Materialist;
16. A Forerunner of Wang An-shih.