The Renaissance of Confucianism in Contemporary China

by Fan, Ruiping

• ISBN13: 9789400715417
• ISBN10: 9400715412
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-09
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

A new generation of Confucian scholars is coming of age. China is reawakening to the power and importance of its own culture. This volume provides a unique view of the emerging Confucian vision for China and the world in the 21st century. Unlike the Neo-Confucians sojourning in North America who recast Confucianism in terms of modern Western values, this new generation of Chinese scholars takes the authentic roots of Confucian thought seriously. This collection of essays offers the first critical exploration in English of the emerging Confucian, non-liberal, non-social-democratic, moral and political vision for China#xE2;#xAC;"s future. Inspired by the life and scholarship of Jiang Qing who has emerged as China's exemplar contemporary Confucian, this volume allows the English reader access to a moral and cultural vision that seeks to direct China#xE2;#xAC;"s political power, social governance, and moral life. For those working in Chinese studies, this collection provides the first access in English to major debates in China concerning a Confucian reconceptualization of governance, a critical Confucian assessment of feminism, Confucianism functioning again as a religion, and the possibility of a moral vision that can fill the cultural vacuum created by the collapse of Marxism.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Rise of Authentic Confucianism	p. 1
The Renaissance of Confucianism
From Mind Confucianism to Political Confucianism	p. 17
The Rise of Political Confucianism in Contemporary China	p. 33
On "One-Continuity" in Jiang Qing's Confucian Thought	p. 47
Jiang Qing on Equality	p. 55
The Confucian Conception of Transcendence and Filial Piety	p. 75
Towards a Proper Relation Between Men and Women: Beyond Masculinism and Feminism	p. 91
The Soft Power in the Confucian "Kingly Way"	p. 109
Critiques and Responses
Jiang Qing's Political Confucianism	p. 139
Declaration Toward a Global Ethic: Jiang Qing's Response	p. 153
Jiang Qing's Arguments on the Inevitable and Permanent Conflict between the Christian Faith and Chinese Culture and on Establishing Confucianism as the State Religion	p. 163
The Characteristics and Prospect of the Confucian Academy: A Commentary on Jiang Qing's Ideas on the Confucian Academy	p. 185
Three Political Confucianisms and Half a Century	p. 205
Is Political Confucianism a Universalism? An Analysis of Jiang Qing's Philosophical Tendency	p. 225
A Note on Jiang Qing
A Confucian Coming of Age	p. 241
Index	p. 259
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