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Imperial China and the State Cult of Confucius
Imperial China and the State Cult of Confucius
Author: Leon E. Stover
Initiated during the Former Han Dynasty in 136 B.C., the state cult of Confucius endured for 2407 years as the civil religion of a vast empire that ever-renewed itself despite periodic disunity and barbarian conquests. This was a weak agrarian state whose foundation was a Neolithic peasantry, whose archaic state-idea traces to the dawn of Chines...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780786417711
ISBN-10: 0786417714
Publication Date: 12/2/2004
Pages: 208
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Publisher: McFarland & Company
Book Type: Hardcover
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