In Confucian Rituals and Chinese Villagers, Yonghua Liu examines how Confucian rituals were introduced to the Chinese countryside and how this introduction brought about social and cultural ...transformations in late imperial and modern periods.
In mainstream assessments of Confucianism’s modern genealogy there is a Sinocentric bias which is, in part, the result of a general neglect of modern Japanese Confucianism by political and moral ...philosophers and intellectual historians during the post-war era. This collection of essays joins a small group of other studies bringing modern Japanese Confucianism to international scholarly notice, largely covering the time period between the Bakumatsu era of the mid-19th century and the 21st century.
The essays in this volume can be read for the insight they provide into the intellectual and ideological proclivities of reformers, educators and philosophers explicitly reconstructing Confucian thought, or more tacitly influenced by it, during critical phases in Japan’s modernization, imperialist expansionism and post-1945 reconstitution as a liberal democratic polity. They can be read as introductions to the ideas of modern Japanese Confucian thinkers and reformers whose work is little known outside Japan—and sometimes barely remembered inside Japan. They can also be read as a needful corrective to the above-mentioned Sinocentric bias in the 20th century intellectual history of Confucianism. For those Confucian scholars currently exploring how Confucianism is, or can be made compatible with democracy, at least some of the studies in this volume serve as a warning. They enjoin readers to consider how Confucianism was also rendered compatible with the authoritarian ultranationalism and militarism that captured Japan’s political system in the 1930s, and brought war to the Asia-Pacific region.
This special issue presents discussions of the role and meaning of religion for Korean society. Covering wide-ranging time periods, the authors explores with their own cases four major ...characteristics of Korean religion: Creativity, Greater Responsiveness, Adaptability, and Prophethood. Their topical religious traditions include Neo-Confucianism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Korean new religious movements.
This commentary reviews the arguments made in An et al.’s ‘Towards a Confucian Geopolitics’. Particularly, I consider An et al.’s main claim that a form of strategic and/or ‘hybrid Confucianism’ has ...played a significant role in the construction of contemporary Chinese geopolitics. While I accept aspects of this argument, this commentary also raises further theoretical and empirical issues that are immanent within the work. I draw attention to: (1) concerns relating to the historical narrative constructed by the authors; (2) problematics relating to the recent diversity of contemporary Confucian discourse; and (3) questions relating to the geographies of Confucianism.
This paper develops the deeper basis of the grand ontology of "Self-transcendence/destructivity-creativity, and the "transformors of holistic unlimitedness" are stipulated to facilitate the process ...of transformations back and forth among systems of transcendental and real physical universes. Then the organizational spirit of human activism comprising the forces of individuality, mutuality/co-creativity and centrality is investigated accordingly. Following this mechanism of human activism, one- and two-space communication systems and "earth-space transformational economies" are configured with detailed structural presentations. The harmonious, mutually sharing and co-creative system of renyi communication, endowed with a network equation, is shown to be iso-systemic to the renyi-based culture-space economy. Furthermore, this renyi spirit would help promote the Belt-Road initiatives and World Island strategy of hybrid Confucianism in its hegemonic competition against the World Ocean strategy of democratic capitalism. For an effective course to eliminate world wars by forging cultural commonality among nations, it could be well served by modifying Zhang Zhai-Zhu Xi model of "mind unification" in which the ultimate energies of T/Li and C dictate the force of Good to eventually pacifies the force of Evil. Then, it is expected to establish a natural connectivity among hybrid Confucianism, Christianity, hybrid Islam, and all other cultural systems, and hence to eliminate hegemonic wars forever on earth and achieve final universal peace. Victor Lux Tonn. Grand Ontology, Renyi Communication, and Holistic Orientation of Culture-Space Economics toward World War and Universal Peace of the Twenty-First Century. China Media Research, 77(1):28-582 Keywords: grand ontology, two-space co-system, humane/Renyi communication, culture-space economics, universal peace, Covid-19 pandemic
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