While we trace the study of Confucianism in the West to the 16th and 17th centuries when Christian missionaries/scholars started deliberating on the teaching, doctrine and practice of Confucius and his followers, Confucian Studies as an academic discipline taught throughout the world took real momentum in the late 20th century. In the past 30 years in particular, scholarship on Confucianism has grown rapidly in and outside China, with an increasing number of scholars focusing on Confucianism as one of the key philosophical, cultural, political and spiritual elements in East Asian civilisation. The new scholarship has gone well beyond traditional 'sinology' boundaries confining Confucianism to historical classics; it has explored Confucianism from many different perspectives such as politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, history, aesthetics and arts, education, religion, gender studies, cultural studies etc.
Confucian Studies has become an intensively debated field where scholars and students of different academic backgrounds have reexamined Confucian teachings and practices, reassessed Confucian relevance and values to contemporary life, and engaged in Confucian dialogues with other philosophical and religious traditions in the world. This is the first book to systematically examine major themes that have developed in Confucian Studies and provide a scholarly, reliable and easily accessible guide to students and scholars. It will consolidate our current understanding of Confucian theories and practices and form a key reference about Confucian Studies for academics, students and the general public who are interested in Confucianism, China, East Asian culture and inter-civilization dialogue.
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Xinzhong Yao is Professor of Religion and Ethics, Director of Lau China Institute, King's College London, UK.
Wei-ming Tu is Professor and Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University, China and Research Professor and Senior Fellow of Asia Center at Harvard University, USA.
1. Introduction
PART I. Confucian Traditions and Innovations
2. Confucius - Roger Ames (Hawaii University)
3. Mencius- Kwong-loi Shun (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
4. Xunzi and Confucian Rationalism- Kurtis Hagen (SUNY Plattsburgh)
5. Confucian Variations in Recently Excavated Bamboo Slips-Shirley Chan (Macquarie University, Sidney)
6. Dong Zhongshu and Han Confucianism-Michael Loewe (Cambridge University)
7. Zhu Xi and the Learning of Principle--Yong Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
8. Wang Yangming and the Learning of the Heart-Mind--Philip J. Ivanhoe (City University of Hong Kong)
9. Kang Youwei and the Confucian Reformation-(Peter Zarrow, University of Connecticut)
10. Korean Confucianism-Guo Yi (Seoul University)
11. Japanese Confucianism-John A. Tucker (East Carolina University)
12. Modern New Confucianism- John Makeham (National University of Australia)
PART II. Confucian Studies as Academic Disciplines
13. Confucian Family-WEN Haiming (Renmin University of China)
14. Confucian Virtues-Michael Slote (University of Maryland)
15. Confucian Ethics-Xinzhong Yao (King's College London)
16. Confucian Epistemology-Karyn Lai (University of New South Wales)
17. Confucian Metaphysics-YANG Guorong (East China Normal University)
18. Confucian Meritocracy-Tongdong Bai (Fudan University)
19. Gender in Confucianism-Chenyang Li (Nanyang Technology University, Singapore)
20. Confucian Education and Civil Service Examinations -Thomas H. C. Lee (?)
21. Confucian Ritual - Lauren Pfister (Hong Kong Baptist University)
22. Confucian Ecology-Mary Evelyn Tucker (Yale University)
23. Confucianism in Visual Arts (Julia Murray, University of Wisconsin)
PART III Confucianism in the Contemporary World
24. Confucianism and Cultural China--Tu Wei-ming (Peking University)
25. Confucian Dialogue with other Civilizations-John Berthrong, Boston University)
26. Political Confucianism--Daniel Bell (Shanghai Jiaotong University)
27. Confucianism and Business-- Po Keung Ip (University of Melbourne)
28. Confucianism and Democracy--Soor-hoon Tan (National University of Singapore)
29. Confucianism and Human Rights-Joseph Chan (University of Hong Kong)
30. Global Confucianism- Robin Wang (Loyola Marymount University)
