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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., the essay also refuses to re-essentialize Chinese otherness as an alternative. At the same time, it traces alternative cosmologies and discourses of Chinese humanism and anti-humanism, informed by Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, as well as other religious and political traditions. In addition...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 29–56.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Gloria Davies This essay begins with the proposition that to engage with the idea of the human in Chinese is to encounter, at some point or other, a rhetorical disposition to benevolence, understood as the Confucian virtue ren . The moral affects of this disposition, I argue, have been hardwired...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 57–79.
Published: 01 December 2011
... appeal into modern times. 64 Fiskesjö · The Animal Other Almost the only real dissent, historically, was that voiced by the anti-imperialist Daoists, who mocked the Confucian humanism that sus- tained the ideology of civilization based on a presumptuous and fictitious...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 81–105.
Published: 01 December 2011
... concepts legible in Confucian terms and vice versa, Malebranche’s strong differentiation between li and God was not simply an argument about cosmology but also an argument about the possibility of intercultural translation...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): 27–50.
Published: 01 March 2012
....58 With the tide of renxue (human studies) ranging from Marxist to Confucian to liberal persuasions, and in cultural genres as diverse as art, flm, literary works, and academic scholarship, these reports were part...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (1 (74)): 57–81.
Published: 01 March 2003
... to extreme poverty, a lack of social service options, and a staunchly patrilineal, “Confucian” society that places primal importance on consanguineous relations, especially on the status that comes with bearing sons. According to Altstein and Simon (1991, 4), South Korea allowed “almost unrestricted...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (1 (110)): 109–141.
Published: 01 March 2012
... Jianghu Literally meaning rivers (江 jiang) and lakes (湖 hu), jianghu is a spirit tied to flow, to movement, and to maneuverability. In this regard, it already signals a breach with majority society with its Confucian human...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 105–121.
Published: 01 September 2000
... articulations of anti-immigrant xenophobia. Huntington, for instance, frames his analysis as a warning against an impending “clash of civilizations” between the Christian West and its adversaries, Islam and Confucianism. As “the single most important char...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 109–127.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., then there would have to be Christian training, Buddhist training, Hindu train- ing, Confucian training, and so on. It is too expensive!” He also asserted 122 Rudnyckyj · Regimes of Self-­Improvement that the 7 Habits training was superior to spiritual training because...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 55–79.
Published: 01 March 2006
... to stand up to the West conceives of an Asia forged through Muslim solidarity, while Lee Kwan Yew of Singapore valorizes Confucianism as the civilizational discourse that defines Asia.12 Rustom Bharucha’s observation that “Singapore needs Asia in a way that India does not” also reflects the limited...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 129–150.
Published: 01 December 2011
... to look this up, but my history has no chronology, and scrawled all over each page are the words: ‘Confucian Virtue and Morality.’ Since I could not sleep anyway, I read intently half the night, until I began to see words...