books.google.com - Many modern scholars of Chinese history, and many Chinese intellectuals throughout the twentieth century, have charged neo-Confucianism with laying the ideological foundations for the growth of autocracy in China. They have especially condemned neo-Confucian political thinkers of the Northern Sung dynasty...http://books.google.com/books/about/Limits_to_autocracy.html?id=vAVK9OS4Am0C&q=ritual&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareLimits to autocracy
