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List of contents
* Preface * Introduction I. Intellectual and Institutional Resources * Confucian Education in Premodern East Asia W.M. Theodore De Bary * Reflections on Civil Society and Civility in the Chinese Intellectual Tradition Edward Shils * The Intellectual Heritage of the Confucian Ideal of Ching-shih Chang Had * Confucian Ideals and the Real World: A Critical Review of Contemporary Neo-Confucian Thought Liu Shu-Hsien II. Japan *"They Are Almost the Same as the Ancient Three Dynasties": The West as Seen through Confucian Eyes in Nineteenth-Century Japan Watanabe Hiroshi * Confucianism and the Japanese State, 1904-1945 Samuel Hideo Yamashita * The Japanese (Confucian) Family: The Tradition from the Bottom Up Robert J. Smith * Some Observations on the Transformation of Confucianism (and Buddhism) in Japan S. N. Eisenstadt III. South Korea and Taiwan * Confucianism in Contemporary Korea Koh Byong-ik * The Reproduction of Confucian Culture in Contemporary Korea: An Anthropological Study Kim Kwang-ok * State Confucianism and Its Transformation: The Restructuring of the State-Society Relation in Taiwan Ambrose Y. C. King * Civil Society in Taiwan: The Confucian Dimension Thomas B. Gold IV. Hong Kong, Singapore, and Overseas Chinese Communities * The Transformation of Confucianism in the Post-Confucian Era: The Emergence of Rationalistic Traditionalism in Hong Kong Ambrose Y. C. King * Promoting Confucianism for Socioeconomic Development: The Singapore Experience John Wong * Confucianism as Political Discourse in Singapore: The Case of an Incomplete Revitalization Movement Eddie C. Y. Kuo * Societal Transformation and the Contribution of Authority Relations and Cooperation Norms in Overseas Chinese Business S. Gordon Redding * Overseas Chinese Capitalism Gary G. Hamilton * Epilogue * Notes * Glossary * Contributors * Index
About the author
Tu Wei-ming is Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University, and Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies, Emeritus, Harvard University. He directed the Harvard-Yenching Institute from 1996 to 2008.
Summary
Seventeen scholars from varying fields here consider the implications of Confucian concerns—self-cultivation, regulation of the family, social civility, moral education, well-being of the people, governance of the state, and universal peace—in industrial East Asia.
