CHAPTER 3. Scholar-Officials

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. EDITORS’ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. Editors’ Introduction 1
5. Introduction 16
6. Part I
7. CHAPTER 1. The Constitution of the Territory and Politics of a Large State 33
8. CHAPTER 2. Ancient China’s Cultural Constitution: A Unified Script and Mandarin Chinese 66
9. CHAPTER 3. Scholar-Officials 98
10. Part II
11. CHAPTER 4. The Mixed Han-Tang-Song Structure and Its Moral Ideal: A Reply to Professor Su Li’s Account of the Chinese Constitution 141
12. CHAPTER 5. The Symbolic and the Functional: Su Li on the Constitution of Ancient China 177
13. CHAPTER 6. The Ideal of Civilization and Formation of Institutions in Ancient China: A Reply to Su Li 191
14. CHAPTER 7. History, Culture, Revolution, and Chinese Constitutionalism 198
15. Part III
16. CHAPTER 8. Response to My Critics 211
17. Glossary Of Key Terms 231
18. Notes 235
19. Bibliography 269
20. Index 285