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...H. D. Harootunian Abstract Any discussion of Thomas Metzger's book, Escape from Predicament , must begin with an evaluation of its possible meanings, not exegetical arguments over his specific reading and selection of texts. Most exegeses are reduced to quibbling over the interpretation of texts...

...Edward T. Ch'ien Abstract As Harry Harootunian has noted, Metzger's Escape from Predicament represents an attempt to transpose the Weberian project onto the Chinese scene, even though its announced aim is to challenge and provide an alternative to Weber's interpretation of Chinese religion...

...Thomas A. Metzger Abstract These three challenging critiques deal mainly with the problem of methodology and two “how much” questions: if Neo-Confucianism exhibited what Max Weber called “tension,” was this tension as strong as I claim? Granted that there was considerable continuity between...

...Thomas A. Metzger Abstract Chin Yao-Chi (Ambrose Y. C. King) is internationally known for the knowledgeability and fluency with which he uses many of the perspectives of Western social science to discuss Chinese culture, modern Chinese history, and current developments on both sides of the Taiwan...

...Thomas A. Metzger 112 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES with the family background, official career, and been intended by the titular Han throne as a political attitudes of Hsiin Yiieh himself. Inevi- commemoration of the dynastic 'restoration' at tably, there is duplication of coverage with what Hsu" (p...

...Thomas A. Metzger; Robert J. Krompart Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 Communications August 4, 1971 Editor, Journal of Asian Studies: In my opinion R. J. Krompart's review (JAS, May 1971) of Wang Shou-nan's Tang-tai fan-chen yii chung-yang \uan-hsi chih yen-chiu...

...Thomas A. Metzger Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, 1900–1920 . By S. A. M. Adshead . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1970 . xi, 222 pp. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $8.75...

...Thomas A. Metzger Ch'ing-chi i-ko ching-kuan-te sheng-huo . By Te-ch'ang Chang . (The Life of a Capital Official in Late Ch'ing Times). Hong Kong : The Chinese University of Hong Kong , 1970 . 272 pp. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography. Hardback, Hong Kong $25; paper, Hong Kong $15...

...Thomas A. Metzger Abstract Richard A. Solomon's book, Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971), suffers especially from a faulty approach to the political culture of traditional China. Neglecting documentary sources, Solomon fails...

...Thomas A. Metzger VOL. XXXIII, No. 3 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES MAY 1974 CHINESE BANDITS: T H E TRADITIONAL PERCEPTION RE-EVALUATED* Analyzing secret societies as expressions of "dissent" or "social protest," recent scholarship has glossed over the anomic, demoralized life of crime with which...

...Hao Chang Abstract In his trail-blazing book, Escape from Predicament , Thomas Metzger opens up new vistas on both Neo-Confucianism and modern Chinese thought. In this article I intend to engage not so much in a critique of his book as in a dialogue that he and I have carried on for a number...

...Robert A. Kapp Abstract Introducing these three critical essays on Edward Said's Orientalism† raises perplexing questions of scholarly and professional definition. In the case of the recent JAS symposium on Thomas A. Metzger's Escape from Predicament , the organizer of the group effort came...

..., with most evincing a positive attitude toward nationalism (Zhang Xudong 1997; Xiao 1997; Sheng 1996; Wen 1996; Li 1995). Outside the PRC, Chinese nationalism is increasingly scrutinized (Zhao 1997; Zhu 1997, Gries 1999). Some hold that it is rational and manageable (Nathan and Ross 1997; Metzger and Myers...

... JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Review Symposium: Thomas A. Metzger's Escapefrom Predicament FEBRUARY 1980 Introduction GUY S. ALITTO Amajor issue in modernization theory, and in the study of the relationship between the expanding West and the "Third World," has been the dynamism or lack of dynamism present...

...Joanna F. Handlin Escape from Predicament: Neo-Confucianism and China's Evolving Political Culture . By Thomas A. Metzger . New York : Columbia University Press , 1977 . xi , 303 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $10.00 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Roger V. Des Forges Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 The Internal Organization of Ch'ing Bureaucracy: Legal, Normative and Communication Aspects . By Thomas A. Metzger . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1973 . x, 469 pp. Appendices, Glossary...

... and Traditional Cultures: A Critique of Thomas Metzger's Escape from Predicament: NeoConfucianism and China's Evolving Political Culture." Professor Metzger's book had raised basic interpretive issues relating to the role of Neo-Confucian thought in China's modern experience, challenging along the way a number...

... Metzger T'ang Chiin-i, whose work stresses the essential strives to eliminate, they will find the book features of Neo-Confucianism at the expense of thoughtful throughout. Indeed, my reservations historical development. By examining Neo- should reveal that Metzger's work is stimulating; Confucianism...

... 12. UNKRA Registry Files, series 526, box 20, folder 3. UNARMS, New York. Metzger Thurl . 1951 . “Korean Report.” September 20. UNKRA Registry Files, series 526, box 20, folder 3. UNARMS, New York. Metzger Thurl . 1952 . “Newsletter.” August 5. UNKRA Registry Files, series 526, box 20...

... that positivistic approaches have not been used enough; nevertheless, the positivist research completed so far raises doubts for him about claims for Chinese cultural distinctiveness commonly advanced in hermeneutic writings. T H O M A S METZGER'S review article looks at the sociologist Chin Yao-chi (Ambrose Y. C...