Confucianism Books

New and Published Books

1. Mapping China and Managing the World

   Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times

   By Richard J. Smith

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship

   From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the concept of order (zhi). This cultural preoccupation has found expression not only in China’s highly refined bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Moral Exemplars in the Analects

   The Good Person is That

   By Amy Olberding

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   In this study, Olberding proposes a new theoretical model for reading the Analects. Her thesis is that the moral sensibility of the text derives from an effort to conceptually capture and articulate the features seen in exemplars, exemplars that are identified and admired pre-theoretically and thus...

   Published August 24th 2011 by Routledge
3. Confucian Studies

   Edited by Xinzhong Yao, Tu Weiming

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Philosophy

   It is difficult, if not totally impossible, to define what we call ‘Confucianism’ in terms of any of the disciplines we are used to in the West, and contemporary scholars tend to see it as a historical and yet living tradition containing elements of philosophy, religion, politics, morality, and...

   Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge
4. Introducing Chinese Religions

   By Mario Poceski

   Series: World Religions

   Introducing Chinese Religions is the ideal starting point for students exploring the fascinating religious traditions of China. This introduction covers the whole spectrum of Chinese religious history, from the multi-faceted religious heritage of pre-modern China, to the practice of different...

   Published June 18th 2009 by Routledge