【主讲】Ying Bai (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
【主题】Endogenous Neo-Confucianism: The Path of Development in Historical China
【时间】2016年5月20日 (周五) 15：30-17：00
【地点】上海财经大学经济学院楼702室
【语言】英文
【摘要】Neo-Confucianism is a philosophy or a religion predominated in the intellectual and spiritual life of East Asia prior to the modern period. This paper argues that the historical formation of Neo-Confucian culture in China was caused by the Jurchen’s defeat of Han Chinese (culminated in the demise of the Northern Song dynasty, circa 960-1127)—a shock that resulted in 5 million people migrating from north to south China. By constructing a Herfindahl index to measure the intensity of competition between the migrants and the natives in a DID setting of a panel of 292 prefectures during 220 BC – 1820 AD, we show that competition for survival between the two groups is positively correlated with the rise of Neo-Confucianism; the latter measured by the magnitude of purity steles conferred upon the so-called “chaste women”—women who for the sake of demonstrating fidelity to their deceased husbands wowed not to remarry or even committed suicide—a behavior highly valued and praised by Neo-Confucianism.
