2015
DOI: 10.15640/rhps.v3n1a4
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Engaging in Civic Life: Confucianism, Republicanism, and Ordinary Chinese in the 1940s

Abstract: This paper explores the civic life of Republican Chinese in the 1940s and compares it with the Western liberal model of civic life by analyzing "public opinion" in the Chinese newspaper. Recent scholarship on the public sphere and civil society shows that the Confucian civic tradition presents a different concept of "public" from that of the Western Republican tradition. The Confucian one places each individual and his interests in a network of human relationships so that one is supposed to lead a communal lif… Show more

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