Liberty, Civil Society, and Community: West and East
ABSTRACT
This conference provided a basis for discussing the degree to which civil society is the product of cultural and historical circumstances and/or a common human nature. The conference attempted to explore these issues by comparing phenomena of private voluntary associations and philanthropic organizations in the traditions of both West and East, drawing upon a combination of significant primary and secondary historical sources.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Becker, Marvin B. The Emergence of Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century: A Privileged Moment in the History of England, Scotland, and France. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Beito, David T. From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Black, Antony. Guilds and Civil Society in European Political Thought from the Twelfth Century to the Present. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Confucius. The Analects. Translated by D. C. Lau. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1992.
Cornuelle, Richard. Reclaiming the American Dream. New York: Random House, 1965.
de Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America (1st Perennial Library Edition). Edited by J.P. Mayer. Translated by George Lawrence. New York: Harper Perennial, 1969, 1988.
Franklin, Benjamin. Writings: The Autobiography, Poor Richard's Almanack, Bagatelles, Pamphlets, Essays, & Letters. Edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. New York: The Library of America, 1987.
Leung, Angela Ki Che, “Elementary Education in the Lower Yangtze Region in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries” In Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900, edited by Benjamin A. Elman and Alexander Woodside, 381-416. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Leung, Angela Ki Che. “Organized Medicine in Ming-Qing China: State and Private Medical Institutions in the Lower Yangzi Region.” Late Imperial China 8, no. 1 (June 1987): 134-166.
Paine, Thomas. The Writings of Thomas Paine (4 Volumes). Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894.
Shuming, Liang, “Chinese Civilization vis-a-vis Eastern and Western Philosophies” In Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 2: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century, compiled by Wm. Theodore de Bary and Richard Lufrano. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. 379-381.
Shuming, Liang, “Reconstructing the Community” In Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 2: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century, compiled by Wm. Theodore de Bary and Richard Lufrano. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. 382-386.
Twitchett, Denis, “The Fan Clan's Charitable Estate, 1050-1760” In Confucianism in Action, edited by David S. Nivison and Arthur F. Wright, 97-133. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1959.
Ubelhor, Monika, “The Community Compact (Hsiang-yueh) of the Sung and Its Educational Significance” In Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage, edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary and John W. Chaffee, 371-388. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
Ubelhor, Monika, “Some Ways of Instilling Confucian Values at the Village Level” In Norms and the State in China, edited by Chun-Chieh Huang and Erik Zurcher, 29-38. New York: E. J. Brill, 1993.
Xun Kuang. Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works. Translated by John Knoblock. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1994.