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Berthrong, John H., 1946-

Confucianism : a short introduction / John H. and Evelyn Nagai Berthrong.

Oxford : Oneworld, 2000.

viii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Against the backdrop of seventeenth-century China, this unique new introduction follows a Confucian couple, together with their family, friends, and staff, through a typical day. The result offers a fascinating insight into the intellectual, scholarly, and practical aspects of Confucianism.

Confucianism.

Nagai-Berthrong, E. (Evelyn), 1946-

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introductory reflections -- Introducing Confucian lives -- A Confucian world -- International and cross-cultural Confucianism -- A living tradition -- Cultural concerns -- Confucianism as a way of life -- The cultivation of the self -- Beginning with becoming a person : self-cultivation -- Quiet-sitting -- Back to the world -- Educating the person -- The importance of education -- Texts and commentaries -- Education as cultivation -- Preparing for the examinations -- Teachers of the inner quarters -- Transmitting the Dao -- The classical world -- The orderly Han -- Buddhist interruptions -- Song revivals -- Continuing in the Ming and Quing -- Examining evil and governing the quotidian -- The evil -- The mundane -- Technology and forgery -- The material world -- Meeting a western scholar -- Controversy over the rites -- Furnishing the study and hosting a reading -- Stones and rocks -- A poetry gathering -- Into the global and modern world -- Internationalization of Confucianism -- Korea -- Japan -- Into the modern world -- The inner sage and outer king -- Two beginnings in Qufu.

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