Download or read book Chinese Thought and Institutions written by John King Fairbank and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These specialists in Chinese history, politics, and sociology break new ground in the application of modern social science to the long Confucian record. Their studies range over the entire chronological span from before Confucius to modern times, but all center on the political and social uses of Confucian ideas.