First published in 1964

These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume Two includes:

• The Republic: Confucianism and Monarchism interwoven
• Confucianism and Monarchy: The basic confrontation
• The evolution of the Confucian Bureaucratic personality
• The limits of despotic control
• Monarch and people
• The Taiping Relation to Confucianism
• The Japanese and Chinese monarchical mystiques