Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming

Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming

by George L. Israel
Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming

Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming

by George L. Israel

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Overview

In Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming, George Israel offers an account of this influential Neo-Confucian philosopher’s official career and military campaigns. While his contribution to China’s intellectual history and the outlines of his political life are well known, the relation between his thought and what he did in his capacity as a Ming official has been given less attention.
Prior writing on Wang Yangming has passed judgment on his ideas by either idealizing or condemning him for how he treated those he was assigned to govern. Through a detailed reconstruction of his career in the context of issues of empire, ethnicity, and violence, George Israel demonstrates that the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789004280083
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 09/15/2014
Series: Sinica Leidensia Series , #116
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

George Lawrence Israel, Ph.D. (2008), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at Middle Georgia State College. He has published several articles on Chinese history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

List of Maps viii

Abbreviations ix

Introduction 1

1 Early Career 14

2 Pacifying Southern Gan 46

Pulling the Weeds at the Margin of Fujian and Guangdong 53

The "She Bandits" of Hengshui and Tonggang 68

Eradicating the Bandits of Northern Guangdong 89

Recuperation 101

Conclusion 107

3 The Prince and the Sage 214

The Rise of the Prince of Ning 121

A Righteous Cause 143

Interpreting Victory 163

Conclusion 173

4 Sageliness Within, Kingliness Without 175

Rewards and Punishments 179

Steering Oar in Hand, Navigating the Rapids 189

Sageliness Within 199

Kingliness Without 212

Conclusion 224

5 Benevolence on the Border 229

Man Rebellions in Guangxi 237

"Shaking the Lines of the Net" 241

Imperial Magnanimity and "Willing Submission" 259

Accommodating the Yi 266

Conclusion 274

6 Subduing and Civilizing the Yao 279

Why Employ the Military Instrument? 283

Using Military Force 290

Implementing the Path of Appeasing, Settling, Soothing, and Subduing 294

Towards Long-term Peace 303

Conclusion 309

Conclusion 314

Epilogue 321

Works Cited 329

Index 340

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