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Confucianism in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan: The Value System of the Two Rice Economies

In: Japan versus China in the Industrial Race

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  • Wei-Bin Zhang

    (Swedish Institute for Futures Studies)

Abstract

Civilisation is a process of man’s rise from a near-animal state to a human society featuring the exercise of reasoning, the creation and adoption of civilised values, and the cultivation of the arts. History shows that the movement of a society towards a civilised state depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound socio-economic ideas and theories, and the ability of the majority to properly apply these ideologies. If the leaders of common men have a taste for bad ideas, nothing can prevent social disasters. In modern times, China’s prolonged engagement with the process of economic rise is closely related to its choice of Marxism instead of Confucianism or Capitalism as the state ideology. In contrast, Japan’s swift adaptation to modern civilisation owes much to its taste for Confucianism and rational Western ideas.

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  • Wei-Bin Zhang, 1998. "Confucianism in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan: The Value System of the Two Rice Economies," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Japan versus China in the Industrial Race, chapter 1, pages 7-36, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-26813-9_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26813-9_2
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