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Contemporary Confucianism in Thought and Action

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Editors:
  1. Guy Alitto

    1. University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

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  • Presents a valuable collection of essays by Confucianism scholars
  • Includes detailed discussions of Confucianism, centered on its "Theory" and "Practice"
  • Shows the prospects of Confucianism, both in China and globally

Part of the book series: China Academic Library (CHINALIBR)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Reconstituting Confucianism for the Contemporary World

    • Guy Alitto
    Pages 1-9

  4. Confucianism in the Contemporary World of Action

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Building a Loho Homeland with Traditional Wisdom

      • Liao Xiaoyi
      Pages 63-78

    3. Modernizing Tradition or Restoring Antiquity as Confucian Alternatives: A View from Reading Wedding Rituals in Contemporary China

      • Margaret Mih Tillman, Hoyt Cleveland Tillman
      Pages 79-100

  5. Liang Shuming: Joining the Worlds of Thought and Action

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Liang Shuming: A Lifelong Activist

      • Guy Alitto
      Pages 103-111

    3. Confucianism as the Religion for Our Present Time: The Religious Dimension of Confucianism in Liang Shuming’s Thought

      • Thierry Meynard
      Pages 113-129

    4. Liang Shuming’s Conception of Democracy

      • Hongliang Gu
      Pages 131-144

    5. Humankind Must Know Itself

      • Peishu Liang
      Pages 145-154
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About this book

​​This volume focuses on contemporary Confucianism, and collects essays by famous sinologists such as Guy Alitto, John Makeham, Tse-ki Hon and others. The content is divided into three sections – addressing the “theory” and “practice” of contemporary Confucianism, as well as how the two relate to each other – to provide readers a more meaningful understanding of contemporary Confucianism and Chinese culture. In 1921, at the height of the New Culture Movement’s iconoclastic attack on Confucius, Liang Shuming (梁漱溟) fatefully predicted that in fact the future world culture would be Confucian. Over the nine decades that followed, Liang’s reputation and the fortunes of Confucianism in China rose and fell together. So, readers may be interested in the question whether it is possible that a reconstituted “Confucianism” might yet become China’s spiritual mainstream and a major constituent of world culture.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

    Guy Alitto

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Contemporary Confucianism in Thought and Action

  • Editors: Guy Alitto

  • Series Title: China Academic Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47750-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing Co., Ltd and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-47749-6Published: 14 October 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51651-5Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-47750-2Published: 02 October 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2195-1853

  • Series E-ISSN: 2195-1861

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 154

  • Additional Information: Jointly published with Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing Co., Ltd, Beijing, China

  • Topics: Non-Western Philosophy, Cultural Studies

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