East Asian confucianisms : texts in contexts / Chun-chieh Huang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huang, Junjie, 1946-

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Global East Asia ; v. 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Confucian--East Asia.

Confucianism--East Asia.

Confucianism.

Philosophy, Confucian.

East Asia.

Physical Description:

298 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Taipei : National Taiwan University Press ; G©œttingen : V&R unipress, [2015]

Summary:

This volume tells the story of the importance of the Confucian traditions and why and how Confucian texts were reinterpreted within the different ambiances and contexts around East Asia. The vitality of East Asian Confucianisms stems from the desire of Confucian thinkers to interpret the core values of the Confucian classics in line with conditions and changes in their own times and location. Although all the interpretations that were advanced in China, Korea and Japan were specific to their own era, they do still share some themes. This book reveals that "East Asian Confucianisms" forms an intellectual community that is transnational and multi-lingual and has evolved in interaction between Confucian "universal values" and the local conditions present in each East Asian country. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I New Perspectives on East Asian Confucianisms

Introduction 23

Chapter 1 On the Relationship between Interpretations of the Confucian Classics and Political Power in East Asia: An Inquiry into the Analects and Mencius 25

Chapter 2 On the "Contextual Turn" in the Tokugawa Japanese Interpretation of the Confucian Classics: Types and Problems 41

Chapter 3 East Asian Conceptions of the Public and Private Realms 57

Chapter 4 The Role of Dasan Learning in the Making of East Asian Confucianisms: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective 81

Part II Confucian Texts in East Asian Contexts

Introduction 93

Chapter 5 Zhu Xi's Comments on Analects 4.15 and 15.3, and His Critics: A Historical Perspective 97

Chapter 6 The Reception and Reinterpretation of Zhu Xi's Treatise on Humanity in Tokugawa Japan 113

Chapter 7 The Confucian World of Thought in Eighteenth-Century East Asia: A Comparative Perspective 131

Chapter 8 Ito Jinsai on the Analects 149

Chapter 9 Shibusawa Eichi on the Analects 175

Chapter 10 What is Ignored in Ito Jinsai's Interpretation of Mencius? 187

Chapter 11 Yamada Hokoku on Mencius' Theory of Nurturing Qi: A Historical Perspective 199

Chapter 12 The Idea of Zhongguo and Its Transformation in the Contexts of Early Modern Japan and Contemporary Taiwan 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-283) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783847104087

384710408X

9789863500735

9863500739

9783847004080

3847004085

OCLC:

917136564