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Lost soul : "Confucianism" in contemporary Chinese academic discourse / John Makeham.

LIBRA BL1840 .M35 2008
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Makeham, John, 1955-
Series:
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 64.
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Confucianism--China.
Confucianism.
China.
Confucianism--Taiwan.
Taiwan.
Physical Description:
xii, 397 pages ; 24 cm.
Other Title:
"Confucianism" in contemporary Chinese academic discourse
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.
Contents:
Aims and Background 4
Key Themes and Arguments 6
Cultural Nationalism and Ruxue 9
Part I Historical Background
1 The Singapore Experiment and Rujia Capitalism 21
Creative Transformation 22
An Incomplete Revitalization Movement 24
Institute of East Asian Philosophies 26
Rujia Capitalism 28
Yu Yingshi's Historical Approach to Rujia Capitalism 31
Du Weiming's Multicultural Confucianism with Chinese Characteristics 34
Critical Responses 37
2 Developments in 1980s Taiwan and the Mainland 42
Ruxue and the Sinicization of Sociology 43
New Confucianism 47
Ruxue Organizations 48
Mutual Scholarly Influence 50
3 The Rise of Ruxue in 1990s China 58
From Xin Ruxue to Ruxue 59
1994 63
National Studies and Marxism 67
4 Ruxue Studies in Post-1990 Taiwan 74
New Confucian Conference Series 75
Academia Sinica's Research Project on Contemporary Ruxue 80
The Hermeneutic Turn and Rujia East Asia 86
Part II Ruxue and Chinese Culture
5 Ruxue: The Core of Chinese Culture 99
Good Ruxue, Bad Ruxue 99
Critique of New Confucian Views 104
Transcendent Idealism Versus Historical Materialism 107
All-consuming Ruxue 111
The Mainstay of Chinese Culture 112
Ruxue in the Twentieth Century 115
The Deep Structure of Ruxue and Chinese National Identity 118
Four Periods of Ruxue 122
Post-New Confucianism and New New Confucianism 125
6 Guo Qiyong, Zheng Jiadong, and Rujia Identity 132
Guo Qiyong 132
Zheng Jiadong 138
7 Daotong and Chinese Culture 149
Yu Yingshi on Qian Mu and the New Confucians 149
Yu Yingshi on Daotong 151
Early Responses 153
Daotong as Culture 154
Part III The Politics of Orthodoxy
8 Lin Anwu's Post-New Confucianism 171
Imperial-Style Ruxue 172
Liberation from Magic 173
Critique of Mou Zongsan 176
Critical/Post-New Confucianism 180
Dialogue and Marxism 185
Appendix A Note on Mou Zongsan's Moral Metaphysics 188
9 Ruxue: Daotong Versus Zhengtong 192
Chen Ming and the Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement 192
Taiwanese Perspectives 198
10 From Doubting Antiquity to Explaining Antiquity: Reconstructing Early Ru Intellectual History in Contemporary China 208
Explaining Antiquity 209
Guodian Texts and Ruxue 216
11 Marxism and Ruxue 234
Ruxue "Panmoralism" and the Sinicization of Chinese Marxism 234
Ruxue-Marxist Synthesis? 238
Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative 242
Abstract Inheritance 243
Fang Keli and the "Mainland New Confucians" 250
Luo Yijun 252
Mainland New Confucians: The Fourth Generation of New Confucians? 254
Part IV Distinguishing Rujiao and Propagating Ruxue
12 Jiang Qing's Ruxue Revivalism 261
Marxism-Leninism Versus Ruxue 261
Gongyang Learning and Cultural Nationalism 264
Political Ruxue and Institutional Reconstruction 267
Political Legitimacy and "Extolling Unification" 270
Chinese Rujiao Association 272
13 Rujiao as Religion 277
Rujiao as a Religion 277
New Confucian Views 279
Ren Jiyu 281
Origins of Rujiao 283
Revival of the Debate in the New Millennium 290
Li Shen's Critics 293
Knowledge Compartmentalization 295
Taiwanese Perspectives on Rujiao 297
Ecumenical Encounters 303
Tang Enjia and the Kongjiao xueyuan 306
14 Popularization of Ruxue and Rujia Thought and Values 310
Traditional Virtues 311
The Beijing Oriental Morality Research Institute 313
Official Endorsement of Rujia Values? 316
Recitation of Classical Texts 319
Cultural Capital: The "Cash Value" of Rujia Values 323.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-391) and index.
ISBN:
9780674028111
0674028112
OCLC:
163614126

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