While of interest to individual scholars and students, the book also exemplifies the merits of a thematic (rather than geographic or area studies) approach to incorporating Asian content throughout the curriculum. This approach provides increased opportunities for cross-cultural comparison and a forum for encouraging values-centered conversation in the classroom.
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Introduction: Confucian Cultures of Authority
Peter D. Hershock and Roger T. Ames
1. Two Loci of Authority: Autonomous Individuals and Related Persons
Henry Rosemont Jr.
2. Intimate Authority: The Rule of Ritual in Classical Confucian Political Discourse
Tao Jiang
3. The Wei (Positioning)-Ming (Naming)- Lianmian (Face)-Guanxi (Relationship)-Renqing (Humanized Feelings) Complex in Contemporary Chinese Culture
Wenshan Jia
4. Creeping Absolutism: Parental Authority as Seen in Early Medieval Tales of Filial Offspring
Keith N. Knapp
5. Virtue (de), Talent (cai), and Beauty (se): Authoring a Full-fledged Womanhood in Lienuzhuan (Biographies of Women)
Robin R. Wang
6. Aspects of Authority in Wu Cheng’en’s Journey to the West
Roberta E. Adams
7. Establishing Authority through Scholarship: Ruan Yuan and the Xuehaitang Academy
Steven B. Miles
8. Intellectual and Political Controversies over Authority in China: 1898–1922
Lawrence R. Sullivan
9. Ought We Throw the Confucian Baby Out with the Authoritarian Bathwater?: A Critical Inquiry into Lu Xun’s Anti-Confucian Identity
Virginia Suddath
List of Contributors
Index
O autorze
Peter D. Hershock is Coordinator of the Asian Studies Development Program at the East-West Center in Honolulu. His books includeChan Buddhism.
Roger T. Ames is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and editor of
Philosophy East & West. His many books include the translation (with D. C. Lau) of the classic Chinese work
Sun Bin: The Art of Warfare, also published by SUNY Press.