East Asian Confucianisms

Texts in Context

Chun-chieh Huang

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9783847104087
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847004080
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Science General
• Index: Biological Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Preface
• Prologue
• Part I New Perspectives on East Asian Confucianisms
• Introduction
• Chapter One: On the Relationship between Interpretations of the Confucian Classics and Political Power in East Asia: An Inquiry into the Analects and Mencius
• Chapter Two: On the “Contextual Turn” in the Tokugawa Japanese Interpretation of the Confucian Classics: Types and Problems
• Chapter Three: East Asian Conceptions of the Public and Private Realms
• Chapter Four: The Role of Dasan Learning in the Making of East Asian Confucianisms: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective
• Part II Confucian Texts in East Asian Contexts
• Introduction
• Chapter Five: Zhu Xi's Comments on Analects 4.15 and 15.3, and His Critics: A Historical Perspective
• Chapter Six: The Reception and Reinterpretation of Zhu Xi's Treatise on Humanity in Tokugawa Japan
• Chapter Seven: The Confucian World of Thought in Eighteenth-Century East Asia: A Comparative Perspective
• Chapter Eight: Itō Jinsai on the Analects
• Chapter Nine: Shibusawa Ēichi on the Analects
• Chapter Ten: What is Ignored in Itō Jinsai’s Interpretation of Mencius?
• Chapter Eleven: Yamada Hōkoku on Mencius’ Theory of Nurturing Qi: A Historical Perspective
• Chapter Twelve: The Idea of Zhongguo and Its Transformation in the Contexts of Early Modern Japan and Contemporary Taiwan
• Epilogue
• Appendix: Some Observations on the Study of the History of Cultural Interactions in East Asia
• Indexes
• Bibliography
• Index of Names
• Index of Terms
• Endorsement