Circle of Fear in Early China
Montesquieu wrote that “China is a despotic state whose principle is fear”. And indeed, in the early modern context in China, fear and despotism, on the one hand, were opposed to <i>ziyou</i> 自由 (“freedom”), on the other. These constructs created a discursive space in which theorists of...
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MDPI AG
2020-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/1/26 |