Universität zu Köln

Zheng, Liang (2021). The Development of the Democratic Ideas in the Late Ming Dynasty. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.

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Abstract

Research over the past decades has raised questions regarding whether democratic ideas were present during the late Ming Dynasty (around the 17th century). Much of this research has overly emphasized the presence of these new ideas, thereby ignoring the way for that thinkers expressed these ideas, the influence of former ideas, and the history of such ideas. Therefore, this work proposes to adopt an approach focusing on the history of concept and the history of experience to explore these questions and analyze the late Ming democratic ideas. In this work, it firstly discusses what the democratic idea is and how to research this idea in the ancient Chinese language context. Then, this work studies the ideological change in the middle of the Ming Dynasty as the “Saddle Period” for the new ideas in the late Ming Dynasty. Last, it researches the history of a series of concepts which are related to democracy, tracing them from early history to the late Ming Dynasty. Through this research, this work re-assurts the existence of democratic ideas in the late Ming Dynasty, while and analyzing the essence and contents of these ideas.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD thesis)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Zheng, Liang rangzheng0510@gmail.com UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-535713
Date:	2021
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Political Science > Department of Political Science
Subjects:	Political science
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Democratic Ideas English Late Ming Dynasty, English Experience English the Concept of Monarch UNSPECIFIED
Date of oral exam:	6 October 2021
Referee:	Name Academic Title Leidhold, Wolfgang Prof.Dr. Jäger, Thomas Prof.Dr.
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/53571