Title: Rethinking confucianism : past and present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam /
Authors: Elman, Benjamin A., 1946-; Duncan, John B.; Ooms, Herman
Publisher: UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Confucianism; East Asia Civilization Confucian influences
Contents: Premodern Appropriations: Contesting Who Represented Confucianism -- Reflections on Classifying "Confucian" Lineages: Reinventions of Tradition in Song China / Hoyt Cleveland Tillman -- Examinations and Orthodoxy in Choson Dynasty Korea / John B. Duncan -- Human Nature: Singular (China) and Plural (Japan)? / Herman Ooms -- Classical Primordialism and the Historical Agendas of Vietnamese Confucianism / Alexander Woodside -- Sociocultural Variations: Medicine, Gender, and Ritual -- Footbinding as Female Inscription Dorothy Ko -- The Body as Text: Confucianism, Reproduction, and Gender in Tokugawa Japan / Susan L. Burns -- Gender and the Politics of Language in Choson Korea / JaHyun Kim Haboush -- Chinese Ritual and Native Japanese Identity in Tokugawa Confucianism / Kate Wildman Nakai -- The Practice of Confucianism: Ritual and Order in Choson Dynasty Korea / Martina Deuchler -- Modern Reappropriations: "Last" vs. "New" Confuclans -- Vietnamese Confucian Narratives / K. W. Taylor -- Tokugawa Confucianism and Its Meiji Japan Reconstruction / Kurozumi Makoto -- Mapping a Vietnamese Confucian Past and Its Transition to Modernity / Shawn McHale -- Uses of Confucianism in Modern Korea / John B. Duncan -- The Closing of the Confucian Perspective in China / Theodore Huters -- Confucianism and Economic Development in South Korea / James B. Palais -- Rethinking "Confucianism" and "Neo-Confucianism" in Modern Chinese History / Benjamin A. Elman.