Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming

Israel, George L

ISBN 10: 9004280081 / ISBN 13: 9789004280083

Published by Brill, Leiden, 2014

About this Item

354 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Published without dust jacket. NOTE: There is a light bump at the head of the spine. Book still in original publisher shrink wrap.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming
• Publisher: Brill, Leiden
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004280081
• ISBN 13: 9789004280083
• Binding: Cloth
• Condition: Very Good to Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Printed Boards

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Synopsis

In Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming, George Israel offers an account of this influential Neo-Confucian philosopher’s official career and military campaigns. While his contribution to China’s intellectual history and the outlines of his political life are well known, the relation between his thought and what he did in his capacity as a Ming official has been given less attention.
Prior writing on Wang Yangming has passed judgment on his ideas by either idealizing or condemning him for how he treated those he was assigned to govern. Through a detailed reconstruction of his career in the context of issues of empire, ethnicity, and violence, George Israel demonstrates that the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

About the Author

George Lawrence Israel, Ph.D. (2008), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Middle Georgia State College. He has published several articles on Chinese history.