Deconstructing Autocracy: A Study of the "New People and Nature" Thought in the Late Ming and Early Qing

Author: Feng Tianyu, Xie Gui'an
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This book studies the history of political thought in China's Ming and Qing dynasties, primarily analyzing Confucian's "theory of the people's fundamental interests," introducing the "new theory of the people's fundamental interests" during the Ming-Qing transition, and pointing out the essential differences between it and modern democracy.