Confucian Cultures of Authority

Informationen zum Autor Peter D. Hershock is Director of the Asian Studies Development Program at the East-West Center in Honolulu. He has published several books, including Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Reorienting Global Interdependence and Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age , also published by SUNY Press. Roger T. Ames is Humanities Chair Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University. His published works include translations of the Chinese philosophical canons and several interpretive studies. Klappentext This volume examines the values that have historically guided the negotiation of identity! both practical and ideal! in Chinese Confucian culture! considers how these values play into the conception and exercise of authority! and assesses their contemporary relevance in a rapidly globalizing world. Included are essays that explore the rule of ritual in classical Confucian political discourse; parental authority in early medieval tales; authority in writings on women; authority in the great and long-beloved Folk novel of China

Product details

• Authors: Peter D. (EDT)/ Ames Hershock, Peter D. Ames Hershock
• Assisted by: Roger T Ames (Editor), Roger T. Ames (Editor), Peter D Hershock (Editor), Peter D. Hershock (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.07.2006
• EAN: 9780791467985
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6798-5
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Suny Series in Asian Studies D; Suny Series in Asian Studies D; Suny Asian Studies Development
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous