Pictorial cover with glued binding; no; seems unread; No; marks or writing, clean tight binding; A narrative providing a new account whenConfusianism became the reigning politial ideaology of imperial China; index; ; Chinese Philosophy Culture; 288 pages Very Good+ bent corners, creases, underlining or highlightling marks or writing, clean tight binding;

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Title: Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication Date: 2014
Language: English
ISBN 10: 143844849X
ISBN 13: 9781438448497
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

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Contests long-standing claims that Confucianism came to prominence under China's Emperor Wu.

Finalist for the 2015 Best First Book in the History of Religions presented by the American Academy of Religion
Winner of the 2014 Academic Award for Excellence presented by Chinese Historians in the United States

When did Confucianism become the reigning political ideology of imperial China? A pervasive narrative holds it was during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (141–87 BCE). In this book, Liang Cai maintains that such a date would have been too early and provides a new account of this transformation. A hidden narrative in Sima Qian's The Grand Scribe's Records (Shi ji) shows that Confucians were a powerless minority in the political realm of this period. Cai argues that the notorious witchcraft scandal of 91–87 BCE reshuffled the power structure of the Western Han bureaucracy and provided Confucians an opportune moment to seize power, evolve into a new elite class, and set the tenor of political discourse for centuries to come.

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Liang Cai is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas.

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