Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China : the political career of Wang Yangming /

Israel, George Lawrence, 1966-

Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China : the political career of Wang Yangming / Political career of Wang Yangming by George L. Israel. - Leiden : Boston : BRILL, 2014. - 1 online resource (343 pages) - Sinica Leidensia . - Sinica Leidensia. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments; List of Maps; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Early Career; 2. Pacifying Southern Gan; Pulling the Weeds at the Margins of Fujian and Guangdong; The "She Bandits" of Hengshui and Tonggang; Eradicating the Bandits of Northern Guangdong; Recuperation; Conclusion; 3. The Prince and the Sage; The Rise of the Prince of Ning; A Righteous Cause; Interpreting Victory; Conclusion; 4. Sageliness Within, Kingliness Without; Rewards and Punishments; Steering Oar in Hand, Navigating the Rapids; Sageliness Within; Kingliness Without; Conclusion; 5. Benevolence on the Border. Man Rebellions in Guangxi "Shaking the Lines of the Net"; Imperial Magnanimity and "Willing Submission"; "Accommodating the Yi"; Conclusion; 6. Subduing and Civilizing the Yao; Why Employ the Military Instrument?; Using Military Force; Implementing the Path of Appeasing, Settling, Soothing, and Subduing; Towards Long-term Peace; Conclusion; Conclusion; Epilogue; Works Cited; Index.

In Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming, George L. Israel offers a detailed study of this influential Neo-Confucian philosopher's official career and military campaigns.

9789004280106 (electronic bk.) 9004280103 (electronic bk.) 132212826X (ebk) 9781322128269 (ebk) (hardback ; alk. paper)

644079 MIL


Wang, Yangming, 1472-1529.
Wang, Yangming, 1472-1529.


Neo-Confucianism.
Néo-confucianisme.
PHILOSOPHY--Eastern.
Neo-Confucianism.


Electronic books.

B128.W364 I87 2014

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