...Kiri Paramore Abstract This article employs the history of Confucianism in modern Japan to critique current scholarship on the resurgence of Confucianism in contemporary China. It argues that current scholarship employs modernist formulations of Confucianism that originated in Japan's twentieth...

...Key P. Yang; Gregory Henderson Abstract An outline of the history of Confucianism in the Three Kingdoms, Silla, Koryŏ, and Yi periods and a consideration of certain political and factional problems of Confucianism in Korea occupied Part I of the present “Outline History.” Part II will now attempt...

... that Confucian China was stagnant because Confucianism was characterized by a complete absence of “tension … between ethical demand and human shortcoming” ( The Religion of China , H. H. Gerth, trans. [New York: Macmillan, 1964], p. 235), Hegel had already concluded that China lay “still outside the World's...

...Don Baker Chŏng Yagyong: Korea's Challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism . By Mark Setton . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1997 . xv, 232 pp. $47.50 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 559...

...Rodney Taylor; Gary Arbuckle Abstract Study of the confucian tradition is dominated by historical and philosophical approaches. Religion and spirituality have been neglected with a consistency that would be admirable if it had been used to better ends—one need only remember James Legge's comment...

... talks with my colleague, David Nivison. Francis Gramlich's work with me on section 21 and related texts was also helpful, as were the comments of members of the Berkeley Regional Seminar on Confucian Studies and the Workshop on Classical Chinese Thought at Harvard in August 1976, to whom earlier...

...Marina Svensson Confucianism and Human Rights . Edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary and Tu Weiming . New York : Columbia University Press , 1998 . xxiii, 327 pp. $40.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 483 gospel theology and what...

...Thomas A. Wilson Neo-Confucianism in History . By Peter K. Bol . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2008 . xi , 366 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Peter K. Bol describes his book as “an interpretive...

...Suzanne Cahill The Sage and the Second Sex: Confucianism, Ethics, and Gender . Edited by Chenyang Li . Chicago : Open Court , 2000 . xiii, 256 pp. $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 1160 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES minutely worked out...

...Willard Peterson Cheng-Zhu Confucianism in the Early Qing: Li Guangdi (1642–1718) and Qing Learning . By On-cho Ng . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2001 . x, 258 pp. $68.50 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1224...

... in connecting Cassirer's and, more broadly, German idealists' philosophical insights to classic Chinese texts, thereby pointing to new possibilities of doing comparative philosophy. Third, the book is not just a phenomenological understanding of Confucian texts but “defends”—as the author puts it—a recognition...

...Sidney DeVere Brown Confucianism in Modern Japan. A Study of Conservatism in Japanese Intellectual History . By Warren W. Smith Jr. Tokyo : The Hokuseido Press , 1959 . xiv , 285 . Illustrations, Bibliography, Appendix, Index. $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Cyrus R. Pangborn The Religion of China. Confucianism and Taoism . By Max Weber . Translated and edited by Hans H. Gerth (1951), with a new Introduction by C. K. Yang . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1964 . xliii, 308 . $2.45. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Kenneth J. Hammond Li Zhi, Confucianism, and the Virtue of Desire . By Pauline C. Lee . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2012 . xiii, 186 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 This slim volume provides...

...Neil McMullin Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture . Edited by Peter Nosco . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1984 . x, 290 pp. List of Contributors, Glossary, Index. $32.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 612 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES than...

...James D. Sellmann The Ways of Confucianism: Investigations in Chinese Philosophy . By David S. Nivison , edited with an introduction by Bryan W. Van Norden . Chicago and La Salle, Ill. : Open Court , 1996 . xiv, 339 pp. $46.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association...

...Tetsuo Najita Abstract When teaching Tokugawa intellectual history, I consistently encounter a question that is at once deceptively simple yet so difficult to respond to in a convincing and substantial way. Why do Japanese historians argue that Confucianism had an important impact on Tokugawa...

...Jonathan Spence Confucianism and Christianity: The First Encounter . By John D. Young . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 1983 . xiii, 182 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Illustrations. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 198 JOURNAL...

...Thomas A. Wilson The Message of the Mind in Neo-Confucianism . By Wm. Theodore de Bary . New York : Columbia University Press , 1989 . xvi, 292 pp. $40.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 824 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES largely reliable reference...

...Roger T. Ames The Religious Dimensions of Confucianism . By Rodney L. Taylor . Albany, N.Y .: State University of New York Press ., 1990 . 198 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 137 (1843...