Free Download Ruiping Fan, "Reconstructionist Confucianism: Rethinking Morality after the West"
English | 2010 | pages: 305 | ISBN: 9048131553, 9400731477 | PDF | 6,2 mb
Contrasting with conventional Neo-Confucian attempts to recast the Confucian heritage in light of modern Western values, this book offers a Reconstructionist Confucian project to reclaim Confucian resources to meet contemporary moral and public policy challenges. Ruiping Fan argues that popular accounts of human goods and social justice within the dominant individualist culture of the West are too insubstantial to direct a life of virtue and a proper structure of society. Instead, he demonstrates that the moral insights of Confucian thought are precisely those needed to fill the moral vacuum developing in post-communist China and to address similar problems in the West. The book has a depth of reflection on the Confucian tradition through a comparative philosophical strategy and a breadth of contemporary issues addressed unrivaled by any other work on these topics. It is the first in English to explore not only the endeavor to revive Confucianism in contemporary China, but also brings such an endeavor to bear upon the important ethical, social, and political difficulties being faced in 21st century China. The book should be of interest to any philosopher working in application of traditional Chinese philosophy to contemporary issues as well as any reader interested in comparative cultural and ethical studies.

Free Download Confucianism and Enlightenment: Contemporary Chinese Thought from the Perspective of Philosophical Understanding and Mergence by Yun Ding
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 184 Pages | ISBN : 9819954703 | 0.48MB
This book presents twelve of the author's selected essays on subjects related to contemporary Chinese thought and examines other significant works on the history of Chinese philosophy. By combing the basic political discourse on Confucianism, it highlights the significance of Confucian Socialism in the present day and explains the author's reflections on the philosophy and modernization of Chinese thought. This book is a valuable resource for experts and scholars as well as for general readers who have an understanding of contemporary Chinese philosophy, offering deep insights into current Chinese thought and Confucian modernization.

Free Download Yong Huang, "Rorty, Pragmatism, and Confucianism: With Responses by Richard Rorty"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0791476847, 0791476839 | PDF | pages: 335 | 11.2 mb
An engagement between Confucianism and the philosophy of Richard Rorty.

Free Download Sang-ho Ro, "Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea: Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814 "
English | ISBN: 0367441004 | 2021 | 204 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Historians of late premodern Korea have tended to regard it as a hermit kingdom, isolated from its neighbours and the wider world. In fact, as Ro argues in this book, Korean intellectuals were heavily influenced by both Chinese Neo-Confucianism and the European Enlightenment in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

Free Download Lost Soul: "Confucianism" in Contemporary Chinese Academic Discourse By John Makeham
2008 | 425 Pages | ISBN: 0674028112 | PDF | 4 MB
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 ongoing cross-fertilization between academics in China and Taiwan; and to examine the relationship between these activities and cultural nationalism.Four key arguments are developed. First, the process of intellectual cross-fertilization and rivalry between scholars has served to sustain academic interest in ruxue. Second, contrary to conventional wisdom, party-state support in the PRC does not underpin the continuing academic discourse on ruxue. Third, cultural nationalism, rather than state nationalism, better explains the nature of this activity. Fourth, academic discourse on ruxue provides little evidence of robust philosophical creativity.

Fenggang Yang, "Confucianism and Spiritual Traditions in Modern China and Beyond "
English | ISBN: 9004212396 | 2011 | 355 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Confucianism is reviving in China and spreading in America. This multidisciplinary volume includes philosophical and theological articulations of Confucianism and other spiritual traditions for the modern and globalizing world, and empirical studies of and analytical reflections on Confucianism and other traditions in Chinese societies by historians, sociologists, and anthropologists.

Zhongjian Mou, "A Brief History of the Relationship Between Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism"
English | ISBN: 9811972052 | 2023 | 625 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Chinese traditions of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism have a profoundly philosophical dimension. The three traditions are frequently referred to as three paths of moral teachings. In this book, Mou provides a clear account of the textual corpus that emerges to define each of these traditions and how this canonical axis was augmented by a continuing commentarial tradition as each generation reauthorized the written core for their own time and place.

The Oxford Handbook of Confucianism
by Oldstone-Moore, Jennifer;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0190906189 | 577 pages | True PDF EPUB | 56.84 MB

Confucianism, Colonialism, and the Cold War: Chinese Cultural Education at Hong Kong S New Asia College, 1949-63 By Grace Ai Chou
2011 | 255 Pages | ISBN: 9004182470 | PDF | 1 MB
By tracing the history of Hong Kong s New Asia College from its 1949 establishment through its 1963 incorporation into The Chinese University of Hong Kong, this study examines the interaction of colonial, communist, and cultural forces on the Chinese periphery.

Shawn Frederick McHale, "Print and Power: Confucianism, Communism, and Buddhism in the Making of Modern Vietnam"
English | 2008 | pages: 274 | ISBN: 082483304X | PDF | 2,2 mb
In this ambitious and path-breaking book, Shawn McHale challenges long held views that define modern Vietnamese history in terms of anticolonial nationalism and revolution. McHale argues instead for a historiography that does not overstress either the role of politics in general or Communism in particular. Using a wide range of sources from Vietnam, France, and the United States, many of them previously unexploited, he shows how the use of printed matter soared between 1920 and 1945 and in the process transformed Vietnamese public life and shaped the modern Vietnamese consciousness.