Confucian and Taiping “Heaven”: The Political Implications of Clashing Religious Concepts
Joseph R. Levenson
In “The Suggestiveness of Vestiges: Confucianism and Monarchy at the Last”, I wrote draining monarchical mystique in modern China. Vestigial monarchism, it seemed to me, was related an equally vestigial — really related, that is, not just parallel some course corrosion. The relation thing, a novel one untroubled association (in common, new ideology “national spirit”), unpromising departure from what seemed, more more, devious, uncertain, tense partnership pre-Western days. loss this ambivalence, Confucian-monarchical attraction-repulsion, comprised Chinese state's attrition. And if its time traditional state prodigiously hardy perennial, perhaps vitality, truly Nietzschean sense, measure tolerance tensions: their release bureaucratic monarchy's death.
Comparative Studies in Society and History