Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons

Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons

Edited by
Tu Weiming
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996)
Order from the Publisher

Table of Contents

• Introduction

I. Intellectual and Institutional Resources

• Confucian Education in Premodern East Asia
  Wm. Theodore De Bary
• Reflections on Civil Society and Civility in the Chinese Intellectual Tradition
  Edward Shils
• The Intellectual Heritage of the Confucian Ideal of Ching-shih
  Chang Hao
• Confucian Ideals and the Real World: A Critical Review of Contemporary Neo-Confucian Thought
  Liu Shu-Shen

II. Japan

• "They Are Almost the Same as the Ancient Three Dynasties": The West as Seen through Confucian Eyes in Nineteenth-Century Japan
  Watanabe Hiroshi
• Confucianism and the Japanese State, 1904–1945
  Samuel Hideo Yamashita
• The Japanese (Confucian) Family: The Tradition from the Bottom Up
  Robert J. Smith
• Some Observations on the Transformation of Confucianism (and Buddhism) in Japan
  S. N. Eisenstadt

III. South Korea and Taiwan

• Confucianism in Contemporary Korea
  Koh Byong-ik
• The Reproduction of Confucian Culture in Contemporary Korea: An Anthropological Study
  Kim Kwang-ok
• State Confucianism and Its Transformation: The Restructuring of the State-Society Relation in Taiwan
  Ambrose Y.C. King
• Civil Society in Taiwan: The Confucian Dimension
  Thomas B. Gold

IV. Hong Kong, Singapore, and Overseas Chinese Communities

• The Transformation of Confucianism in the Post-Confucian Era: The Emergence of Rationalistic Traditionalism in Hong Kong
  Ambrose Y.C. Kingk
• Promoting Confucianism for Socioeconomic Development: The Singapore Experience
  John Wong
• Confucianism as Political Discourse in Singapore: The Case of an Incomplete Revitalization Movement
  Eddie C.Y. Kuo
• Societal Transformation and the Contribution of Authority Relations and Cooperation Norms in Overseas Chinese Business
  S. Gordon Redding
• Overseas Chinese Capitalism
  Gary G. Hamilton