Philip Yuen-Sang

About the BookThe Legitimation of New Orders: Case Studies in World History is a collection of seven case studies which treat different aspects of political and ritual legitimation in China and Europe over the past two millennia. Each case deals with a special topic:


Case 1: rituals adopted in the Qin-Han period to establish legitimate claim of the ruling emperors as endowed with mandate of Heaven;
Case 2: the establishment of function, of legal code and its period in the Song period;
Case 3: a territorial dispute related to sovereignty, as argued by Song scholar/officials in the Song period;
Case 4: the process of white-washing a case of seizure of the imperial throne by Emperor Yongle of the Ming dynasty;
Case 5: how propaganda were designed to portrait Sun Yatsen in the model of Confucian sage-king;
Case 6: rituals of coronation in Russian history;
Case 7: pre-legitimation of the Norman claim of a monarchy in England.
With a primary focus on the analysis of crisis and change, the book's main concern is how rulers and states work to produce a popular political consensus accepting their rule, an important issue in world history.

• 出版社： 香港中文大學出版社 出版日期：2007-02-01 ISBN/ISSN：962996239X
• 語言：繁體中文 裝訂方式：平裝
• 類別： 中文書> 歷史地理> 西方國別史