Confucianism and the Modernization of China
Author | : Silke Krieger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Silke Krieger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ambrose Y. C. King |
Publisher | : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9882370152 |
This book examines how Confucian traditions have shaped modernity in East Asia. Ambrose Y. C. King discusses how China and East Asia developed a model of modern civilization distinct from the Western model of modernization, which involves not only a process of deconstructing the cultural tradition but also a process of reconstructing it. He shows how the experience of modernization diverges within different Chinese societies, namely Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Taiwan. By highlighting the impact of Confucianism, he argues that Confucianism contains the seeds of modernization and transformation, and that in the right institutional settings these seeds influence the course of development. King focuses on how Confucian ideas and values underpinning the foundation of East Asian societies, including social civility, political governance, the role of the family, and moral regulation, matter to the modern social and political transformations of Chinese societies today.
Author | : Kam Louie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2008-06-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521863228 |
A wide-ranging and accessibly written guide to the key aspects of elite and popular culture in contemporary China.
Author | : Wei-Bin Zhang |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9812383514 |
This book is part of a broad examination of Confucianism and its implications for modernization of the Confucian regions (covering mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Singapore). It is mainly concerned with the industrialization and modernization of Taiwan. To help readers understand the process of modernization, the book provides an introduction to the history of Taiwan and to Confucianism and its modern implications. As far as social and economic principles are concerned, Taiwan's modernization is, according to the author, characterized by Americanization and modernizing Confucian manifestations. The book demonstrates that Taiwan has actually provided an important case study not only for the capitalist spirit of overseas Chinese, but also for possible implications of Confucianism for modernization. The unique character of this book is that in explaining Taiwan's modernization, it deals not only with economic and social issues, but also examines the philosophical foundations, an endeavor which no other author has systematically made before.
Author | : Joseph Richmond Levenson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : W. Zhang |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 1999-05-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780333749661 |
Wei-Bin Zhang offers an authoritative guide to the philosophy of Confucianism and its impact in the Confucian regions, covering mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam and Singapore. All, except Singapore, employed Confucianism as the state ideology before the West came to East Asia. The differences and similarities between the variety of Confucian schools are examined. The author concludes that the philosophical and ethical principles of Confucianism will assist in the industrialization and democratization of the region.
Author | : Reginald Fleming Johnston |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108080367 |
This 1934 collection of lectures considers the tensions between ancient philosophy and the New Culture Movement in the Chinese Republic.
Author | : Daniel A. Bell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2003-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521821002 |
While Confucian ideals continue to inspire thinkers and political actors, discussions of concrete Confucian practices and institutions appropriate for the modern era have been conspicuously absent from the literature thus far. This volume represents the most cutting edge effort to spell out in meticulous detail the relevance of Confucianism for the contemporary world. The contributors to this book--internationally renowned philosophers, lawyers, historians, and social scientists--argue for feasible and desirable Confucian policies and institutions as they attempt to draw out the political, economic, and legal implications of Confucianism for the modern world.
Author | : Joseph B. Tamney |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2002-01-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Confucianism has influenced Chinese societies for more than 2,000 years, and such influence is likely to continue in the future. However, during the preceding centuries, the nature of what was understood to be Confucianism has changed, and this process will also continue. Today, the scholarly tradition is adapting both to the modernization of Chinese societies—mainland China, Singapore, and Taiwan—and to the emergence of global society. Tamney and Chiang focus on current social changes, their implications for the Chinese scholarly tradition, and the responses of Confucianists to these changes. Special topics include the response of Confucian scholars to the democracy movement, how politicians are using Confucian beliefs and values, the role of the scholarly tradition in contemporary Chinese popular culture, the challenges to Confucianism resulting from the changing role of women, and how competition with world religions is affecting the scholarly tradition. Throughout the book two themes are explored: the division of Confucianism into traditionalist and modernist forms and the nature of ideological convergence in the contemporary world. Scholars, students, and researchers interested in the ways Confucianism is becoming more similar to Western beliefs and values and in the ways Confucianism is likely to remain distinctive will find the volume invaluable.
Author | : Roger T. Ames |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2018-07-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0824876105 |
For more than a century scholars both inside and outside of China have undertaken the project of modernizing Confucianism, but few have been as successful or influential as Li Zehou (b. 1930). Since the 1950s, Li’s extensive efforts in this regard have in turn exerted a profound influence on Chinese modernization and resulted in his becoming one of China’s most prominent social critics. To transform Confucianism into a contemporary resource for positive change in China and elsewhere, Li has reinterpreted major ideas and concepts of classical Confucianism, including a rereading of the entire Analects, replete with his own philosophical speculations derived from other Chinese and Western traditions (most notably, the ideas of Kant and Marx), and developed an aesthetical theory that has proved especially far-reaching. Although the authors of this volume hail from East Asia, North America, and Europe and a wide variety of academic backgrounds and fields of study, they are unanimous in their appreciation of Li’s contributions to not only an evolving Confucian philosophy, but also world philosophy. They view Li first and foremost as a sui generis thinker with broad global interests and not one who fits neatly into any one philosophical category, Chinese or Western. This is clearly reflected in the chapters included here, which are organized into three parts: Li Zehou and the Modernization of Confucianism, Li Zehou’s Reconception of Confucian Philosophy, and Li Zehou’s Aesthetical Theory and Confucianism. Together they form a coherent narrative that reveals how Li has, for more than half a century, creatively studied, absorbed, and reconceptualized the Confucian ideational tradition to integrate it with Western philosophical elements and develop his own philosophical insights and original theories. At the same time, he has transformed and modernized Confucianism for the purpose of both coalescing with and reconstructing a new world cultural order.