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TheEdwinO.ReischauerLectures,2001 Lost Modernities China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History Alexander Woodside HarvardUniversityPress Cambridge,Massachusetts London,England 2006 Copyright©2006bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Woodside,Alexander. Lostmodernities:China,Vietnam,Korea,andthehazardsof worldhistory/AlexanderWoodside. p.cm.—(TheEdwinO.Reischauerlectures) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-674-02217-3(alk.paper) 1.Bureaucracy—China—History. 2.Bureaucracy—Vietnam—History. 3. Bureaucracy— Korea—History. 4.China—Politicsandgovernment. 5.Vietnam—Politicsandgovernment. 6.Korea—Politicsandgovernment. I.Title. JQ1510.W662006 320.951—dc22 2005056710 ForJohn,Mike,Melinda, andGloriaWoodside Contents Preface ix Introduction 1 1 QuestioningMandarins 17 2 Meritocracy’sUnderworlds 38 3 AdministrativeWelfareDreams 56 4 MandarinManagementTheorists? 77 Conclusion 107 Notes 119 Index 135 Preface Thefourchaptersof thisbookwerepresented,inmorecompressedform, as the Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures for 2001 at Harvard University. The Introduction has been written more recently. I was very honored to be askedtogivetheselectures,andIwishtothankProfessorsElizabethPerry (who extended the invitation), Roderick MacFarquhar, Ezra Vogel, Hui- Tam Ho Tai, Philip Kuhn, Suzanne Ogden, and other colleagues in the Harvard Asian Studies community for their warm hospitality when I was brieflyreunitedwiththem. IshouldalsothanktheJohnSimonGuggenheimMemorialFoundation foragrantthathelpedmetodosomeoftheresearchandthinkingthatare incorporated into these chapters.I am grateful as well to the Humanities ResearchCentreattheAustralianNationalUniversity,whichprovidedme withamostcongenialresearchbaseafewyearsago.Finally,Ishouldthank mycolleaguesattheInstituteofAsianResearchattheUniversityofBritish Columbia—most particularly Pitman Potter, Michael Leaf, Diana Lary, Tim Cheek, and Dan Overmyer—for the collegial and stimulating schol- arlyatmospheretheycreate.Comparativehistorianssometimesfindthem- selves sharing the dilemma of the hapless Buddhist monks in medieval Chinesepornographicnovelswhocan’tmaketheiractivitiesseemrespect- abletoeveryone.WithcolleaguessuchastheonesIhaveintheChoibuild- ing, it is a pleasure to think about the comparative study of Asian civili- zations.
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