Confucianism in Context

Confucianism in ContextA wide ranging consideration of Confucianism for Western readers. What is Confucianism? This book provides a wide ranging view of the tradition and its contemporary relevance for Western readers. Discussing the development of Confucianism in China, the work goes on to show the deep impact of Korean and Japanese cultures on Confucian thinking. A dialogic way of thought, highly sensitive to locations and conditions, Confucianism is shown to be a

This paperback edition includes a new preface by the author that explores the role of culture and institutions in economic performance and the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for the Egyptian economy

A holistic approach to the fascinating

Shows how the text evolved from a non-narrative historical record into a Confucian classic

and finally dispersed

Yet plants are considered passive and insensitive beings rightly placed outside moral consideration

Countess Ellen Olenska

schools are not primarily about knowledge

The Black Robe shows brilliant flashes of the author’s trademark sense of mystery and psychological unease

but at the same time doing so in characteristically different ways

animal care

and examples of English and French women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

he is deeply in love with a married woman