Traditional Ten Arguments: The Institutions, Culture, and Changes of Local Societies

Author: Qin Hui
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: This book is one of the "Famous Scholars' Special Topic Lectures." The series of articles collected in this book primarily focus on the structural study of traditional society and culture. The author is dissatisfied with the popular "myth of rent and lease" and "myth of clans," advocating for a comprehensive and integrated understanding of the truly defining rules of the traditional era through the synthesis of socio-economic analysis and thought-culture analysis. The author seeks to break free from the traditional dichotomy of "anti-Confucianism" and "Confucian veneration" and move away from the traditional constraints of a large commonality-based social structure towards a civil society. In the cultural-symbolic system, the author proposes "the convergence of Western and Confucian thought, deconstructing the complementarity of law and Taoism," using the personal resources of "helping the world when in poverty and cultivating oneself when in prosperity" and the modern institutional arrangements of democratic constitutionalism-human rights protection to eliminate the personality flaws of power-cynicism complementarity under authoritarian systems.