Development of the Sage-King narratives : idealized concepts of rulership in Warring States Chinese thought
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how contemporary scholarship interpreted sage-kings (聖王) narratives, commonly used in Warring States and Chinese philosophical texts to represent particular visions of ideal rulership, in their understanding of the historical and political contexts of the...
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University of British Columbia
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43654 |