Contemporary Confucianism in Thought and Action

This volume focuses on contemporary Confucianism, and collects essays by famous sinologists such as Guy Alitto, John Makeham, Tse-ki Hon and others. The content is divided into three sections – addressing the “theory” and “practice” of contemporary Confucianism, as well as how the two relate to each...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Alitto, Guy. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:China Academic Library,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47750-2
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Confucianism
  • Some Historical and Methodological Reflections on Ruxue in Contemporary China
  • From Culture to Cultural Nationalism: A Study of New Confucianism of the 1980s and 1990s
  • A Study on Pre-Qin Confucian Scholars’ Environmental Ethics
  • On Confucian Constitutionalism
  • Building a Loho Homeland with Traditional Wisdom
  • Modernizing Tradition or Restoring Antiquity as Confucian Alternatives: A View from Reading Wedding Rituals in Contemporary China
  • Liang Shuming: a Lifelong Activist
  • Confucianism as the religion for our present time
  • Liang Shuming’s Conception of Democracy
  • Humankind Must Know Itself.