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Reinventing Confucianism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 904

Reinventing Confucianism

Reinventing Confucianism is a pioneer presentation of the New Confucian Movement, which has developed in China in the aftermath of the 1919 May Fourth Movement. The book offers a brief history of this current of thought, reviewing the three generations of leaders from the 1920s to the present, and describes the life and thought of eleven main figures representative of the philosophical development of China in the 20th century. We are introduced to Liang Shuming, the forerunner of the movement; Ma Yifu, the Confucian hermit; Xiong Shili the metaphysician; Zhang Junmai, an advocate of political democracy and constitutionalism; Feng Youlan, the renowned philosopher; He Lin, a follower of Hegel;...

The Changing Legal Orders in Hong Kong and Mainland China: Essays on “One Country, Two Systems”
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

The Changing Legal Orders in Hong Kong and Mainland China: Essays on “One Country, Two Systems”

  • Categories: Law

This collection of selected works by Professor Albert H.Y. Chen shows the contours of the author’s scholarship as it developed over 35 years of his academic career, from 1984 to the present. The essays are divided into three sections which cover the three major domains of Professor Chen’s research. Part I covers the legal developments and controversies of “One Country, Two Systems” since the Hong Kong interpretation on “the right of abode” in 1999 to the anti-extradition movement of 2019. Part II shifts to focus on tradition and modernity in Chinese Law, including China’s Confucian and Legalist traditions and how the socialist legal system in China evolved and modernized in the...

Xu Fuguan in the Context of East Asian Confucianisms
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Xu Fuguan in the Context of East Asian Confucianisms

Among twentieth-century Confucians, Xu Fuguan (1904–1982) remains preeminent. This volume, written by Chun-chieh Huang, an authority on Xu’s life and thought, offers English-speaking readers for the first time an exhaustive analysis of the philosopher’s original ideas and research. A distinguished member of the group of Contemporary New Confucians, Xu made a significant contribution to the revival of Chinese culture and society, and the present book outlines the specific features of his legacy in comparison with the views of some of his influential Chinese and Japanese contemporaries. The topics covered illustrate an overarching idea, namely, the innovative way in which Xu Fuguan answe...

Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century

"... an important contribution to the study of recent Chinese literature." -- Choice "This fine, scholarly survey of Chinese literature since 1949... discusses such trends as modernism, nativism, realism, root-seeking and 'scar' literature, 'misty' poets, and political, feminist, and societal issues in modern Chinese literature." -- Library Journal This volume is a survey of modern Chinese literature in the second half of the twentieth century. It has three goals: (1) to introduce figures, works, movements, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature from 1949 to the end of the century; (2) to depict the enunciative endeavors, ranging from ideological treatises to avant-garde experiments, that inform the polyphonic discourse of Chinese cultural politics; (3) to observe the historical factors that enacted the interplay of literary (post)modernities across the Chinese communities in the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas.

The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity

In the early twentieth century, China was on the brink of change. Different ideologies - those of radicalism, conservatism, liberalism, and social democracy - were much debated in political and intellectual circles. Whereas previous works have analyzed these trends in isolation, Edmund S. K. Fung shows how they related to one another and how intellectuals in China engaged according to their cultural and political persuasions. The author argues that it is this interrelatedness and interplay between different schools of thought that are central to the understanding of Chinese modernity, for many of the debates that began in the Republican era still resonate in China today. The book charts the development of these ideologies and explores the work and influence of the intellectuals who were associated with them. In its challenge to previous scholarship and the breadth of its approach, the book makes a major contribution to the study of Chinese political philosophy and intellectual history.

Chinese Émigré Intellectuals and Their Quest for Liberal Values in the Cold War, 1949–1969
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Chinese Émigré Intellectuals and Their Quest for Liberal Values in the Cold War, 1949–1969

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-10-11
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This book will inspire readers who are concerned about the prospects for democracy in contemporary China by painting a picture of the Chinese self-exiles’ experiences in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Economic Ethics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 737

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Economic Ethics

This innovative collection of essays draws together and compares the teachings of world and regional religions on the subject of economic morality.

Lost Soul
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 415

Lost Soul

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-10-26
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Since the mid-1980s, Taiwan and mainland China have witnessed a sustained resurgence of academic and intellectual interest in ruxue—“Confucianism”—variously conceived as a form of culture, an ideology, a system of learning, and a tradition of normative values. This discourse has led to a proliferation of contending conceptions of ruxue, as well as proposals for rejuvenating it to make it a vital cultural and psycho-spiritual resource in the modern world. This study aims to show how ruxue has been conceived in order to assess the achievements of this enterprise; to identify which aspects of ru thought and values academics find viable, and why; to highlight the dynamics involved in the...

Literary Societies Of Republican China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 601

Literary Societies Of Republican China

Literary Societies in Republican China provides a new and comprehensive perspective on the fascinating literary world of the most turbulent period in recent Chinese history: the Republican era of 1911-1949. Wedged between the fall of the Empire and the founding of the Communist state, the Republican period witnessed enormous social, political, and cultural changes. Traditionally the period is seen as one of transition: from the country being partially colonized and occupied to being an independent nation-state, from Confucianism to socialism, from writing in classical Chinese to writing in the everyday vernacular. Modern scholarship, however, has become suspicious of such attempts to analyze...

Thomé H. Fang, Tang Junyi and Huayan Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Thomé H. Fang, Tang Junyi and Huayan Thought

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-06-27
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In Thomé H. Fang, Tang Junyi and Huayan Thought, King Pong Chiu discusses Thomé H. Fang and Tang Junyi, two important Confucian thinkers in twentieth-century China, who appropriated Huayan thought to develop a response to the challenges of ‘scientism’.