Failure of Illiberalism Essays on the Political Culture of Modern Germany

Name: Failure of Illiberalism Essays on the Political Culture of Modern Germany
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ISBN: 9780231079099

ISBN-10: 0231079095

ISBN-13: 9780231079099

Edition: 1992

Authors: Fritz Stern, Fritz R. Stern

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Though collections of Chinese fiction, poetry, and drama abound, there have been no English-language anthologies of Chinese essays on the market. Now, veteran sinologist David Pollard has selected and translated the best and most representative examples of Chinese prose writing from the third century to the contemporary period.Succinctly tracing the history of the genre in China in his introduction, Pollard then wittily and informatively introduces each writer chosen. The selections themselves include Ye Shengtao's ruminations of making a boat trip to visit his ancestors' graves, Fan Bao on life in prison, Gui Yougang's reminiscence of his mother, Yuan Mei's essay on borrowing books, and…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 10/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.85" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface To The Morningside Edition


Introduction



The Illiberal Society


The Political Consequences of the Unpolitical German


Money, Morals, and the Pillars of Society


Gold and Iron: The Collaboration and Friendship of Gerson Bleichroder and Otto von Bismarck



Germany and the Great War


Bethmann Hollweg and the War: The Bounds of Responsibility


The First World War: An Evocation


A Liberal Historian and the War: Elie Halevy's "The World Crisis of 1914-1918"


German Historians and the War: Fischer and His Critics



From Weimar to Bonn


Adenauer in Weimar: The Man and the System


The Collapse of Weimar


Germany Revisited: Berlin 1954


Index