Beyond elitism: Community ideal for a modern East Asia

• المؤلف الرئيسي: TAN, Sor-hoon
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• الموضوعات: Confucian Democracy; New Confucianism; Constitutionalism; Ethics and Political Philosophy
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2542; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3799/viewcontent/Beyond_Elitism_pv.pdf

It is often remarked that East Asian polities have been hierarchical and the "elite" category continues to figure prominently in works on Chinese society and politics. Many scholars believe that hierarchy and elitism are deeply rooted in Confucianism, which served as the state orthodoxy in...