Contemporary East Asia and the Confucian Revival

Contemporary East Asia and the Confucian Revival PDF Author: Jana S. Rošker
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443885606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Book Description
The so-called Confucian revival which came to prominence at the end of the twentieth-century, and which is manifested in the philosophical stream of Modern Confucianism, is one of the most significant elements within new Asian modernisation ideologies. By providing new insights into the culturally conditioned structure of Asian societies, this book contributes to the improvement of political, economic and cultural relations between "Western" and East Asian countries. Most classical Western modernisation theories have assumed that Confucianism would have to be abandoned if East Asia wanted to dev.