Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 November 2019
Summary
In the past two decades, Confucian political theory has rapidly established itself as one of the most vigorous subfields of political theory, obliterating the image of Confucianism as a relic of the “feudal” age and the single greatest obstacle to East Asia’s modernization. Of course, Confucianism as a set of intellectual ideas or as a world religion has long been incorporated into modern education since East Asia’s full-scale “encounter with the West” in the late nineteenth century.
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- Theorizing Confucian Virtue PoliticsThe Political Philosophy of Mencius and Xunzi, pp. 1 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019