1st Edition

New Confucianism in Twenty-First Century China The Construction of a Discourse

By Jesus Sole-Farras Copyright 2014
280 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores how Confucian thought, which was the ideological underpinning of traditional, imperial China, is being developed and refined into a New Confucianism relevant for the twenty-first century. It traces the development of Confucian thought, examines significant new texts, and shows how New Confucianism relates to various spheres of life, how it informs views on key philosophical... Read more

Introduction  1. A Discourse Construction Based on the Contemporary Intellectual Context of Confucianism  2. A Discourse Construction Based on the Discursive Spaces of Contemporary Confucianism  3. A Discourse Construction Based on the Major Contributions to New Confucianism  4. A Discourse Construction Based on a Text of Reference: A Manifesto for Chinese Culture  5. The Construction of a Discourse under Multipurpose Cooperation

Biography

Jesús Solé-Farràs is a lecturer in East Asia Studies at the Open University of Catalonia, Spain.

"The New Confucianism in Twenty-First Century China: the Construction of a Discourse is an important contribution to Sinology generally and Confucian studies specially, and a good resource for graduate students and researchers
alike."

Peter T. C. Chang PhD, Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Journal of Global and International Studies

"He understands New Confucianism as 'the contemporary Confucianism that includes the Confucianist thought generated in the wake of the May Fourth Movement of 1919.' His notion of contemporary Confucianism, as depicted in the book, largely embraces an intellectual (mainly abstract) project that is being articulated in academe."

Lukas Pokorny, University of Vienna, Austria. Religious Studies Review, Vol. 44, No. 1, March 2018