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Confucianism
World Scientific Publishing Company/Zhejiang University Press 2013; US$ 114.00This book is the Magnum Opus dedicated to Mr Chi Yun Chang, a prominent historian as well as the founder of Chinese Culture University. This book illustrates the six elements of Confucius' teachings: Philosophy of Life Ethics, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Creation, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Providence and Philosophy of Peace.The... more...
Confucianism, Democratization, and Human Rights in Taiwan
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 54.99Evaluating the ?Asian values? thesis in Taiwan, Confucianism, Democratization, and Human Rights in Taiwan, by Joel S. Fetzer and J. Christopher Soper, concludes that while Confucian values were used to bolster authoritarianism under martial law and played little role in democratization, they are now being reinterpreted in a pro-democratic direction.... more...
Confucianism, Chinese History and Society
World Scientific Publishing Company 2012; US$ 55.00The present volume is part of the Worldviews, Science and Us series of proceedings. It contains selected contributions on the subject of bridging knowledge and its implications for our perspectives of the world. This volume also represents the proceedings of the interdisciplinary stream of the international workshop (Part 1) Times of Entanglement,... more...
The Renaissance of Confucianism in Contemporary China
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99A new generation of Confucian scholars is coming of age. China is reawakening to the power and importance of its own culture. This volume provides a unique view of the emerging Confucian vision for China and the world in the 21st century. Unlike the Neo-Confucians sojourning in North America who recast Confucianism in terms of modern Western values,... more...
Confucianism
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 25.00It is arguably Confucianism, not Communism, which lies at the core of China's deepest sense of self. Although reviled by Chinese intellectuals of the 1950s-1990s, who spoke of it as 'yellow silt clotting the arteries of the country', Confucianism has defied eradication, remaining a fundamental part of the nation's soul for 2500 years. And now, as China... more...
Confucian Political Ethics
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 26.95For much of the twentieth century, Confucianism was condemned by Westerners and East Asians alike as antithetical to modernity. Internationally renowned philosophers, historians, and social scientists argue otherwise in Confucian Political Ethics . They show how classical Confucian theory--with its emphasis on family ties, self-improvement, education,... more...
Reconstructionist Confucianism
Springer 2010; US$ 84.99Contrasting with conventional Neo-Confucian attempts to recast the Confucian heritage in light of modern Western values, this book offers a Reconstructionist Confucian project to reclaim Confucian resources to meet contemporary moral and public policy challenges. Ruiping Fan argues that popular accounts of human goods and social justice within the... more...
Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 40.00Van Norden examines early Confucianism as a form of virtue ethics and Mohism as a version of consequentialism. more...
Confucian Ethics
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 30.00The Chinese ethical tradition has often been thought to oppose Western views of the self as autonomous and possessed of individual rights with views that emphasize the centrality of relationship and community to the self. The essays in this collection discuss the validity of that contrast as it concerns Confucianism. more...
Confucianism
Infobase Publishing 2004; US$ 35.00The volumes in the new series Religions of the World surveys religions that have had a major impact on the history of the world and that continue to play a role in relationships between nations and ethnic groups. All aspects--including roots and founding, primary beliefs and cultural activities, the way the faiths are viewed by the rest of the world,... more...









