Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire by Cai Liang

Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire by Cai Liang

Author:Cai, Liang
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2014-04-14T16:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER FIVE

Begin in the Middle

Who Entrusted Ru with Political Power?

The elevation of ru learning as state ideology is often associated with the creation of a giant empire, as the conventional view holds that to unify diversified regions into one political entity needs a homogeneous discourse. Few people would ever expect that the embrace of ru doctrines by political authorities in fact was directly linked with the succession crisis of the empire after the witchcraft scandal.

HUO GUANG’S DICTATORSHIP AND RU DISCOURSE



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