Contemporary East Asia and the Confucian Revival. Edited by Jana S. Rosker and Natasa Visocnik. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. (book review)
Contemporary East Asia and the Confucian Revival. Edited by Jana S. Rosker and Natasa Visocnik. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. (book review)
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当代东亚与儒家复兴。
DOI:
10.1111/rsr.13758
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2018
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Balogh Lehel
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REVIVAL. Edited by Jana S. Rošker and Nataša Visočnik. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. Pp. xl+ 227. Hardback, $91.95. Rošker, Professor of Chinese Studies, along with Visočnik, Assistant Professor, both at the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, have compiled a colorful selection of papers with wide-ranging topics—from education to aesthetics to morality and politics—that have one single golden thread running through them: the so-called “Confucian revival” that appears to have left its indelible mark on both theoretical and practical developments of the late modernity in the East Asian and in the global context, as well. Although Western theorists habitually tend to portray “traditional” and “modern” to be mutually exclusive, Rošker and Visočnik argue that, on the contrary,“the relations between tradition and modernity do not necessarily involve conflict.” Thus, the authors of the volume set out to demonstrate that “Modern Confucianism,” far from being reactionary or downright conservative, is fairly progressive, and, in fact,“one of the most significant elements within the new Asian modernization ideologies.” The book comprises twelve chapters, each dealing with different aspects of the “Confucian revival.” Chapters 1 (Luka Culiberg) and 2 (Hans Kuehner) examine the Confucian characteristics of the influential “National Studies” in the formation process of the Chinese and Japanese political constitutions. Chapters 3 (Téa Sernelj) and 4 (Rošker) look at the philosophical foundations of the “Confucian revival” by analyzing two famed contemporary theoreticians’ work: that of Xu Fuguan and Mou Zongsan. Chapters 5 (Jyrki Kallio) and 6 (Helena Motoh) address “the modern reshaping of central Confucians concepts” in China, while Chapters 7 (André Bueno) and 8 (Visočnik) investigate Brazilian and Japanese receptions of the Confucian heritage. Chapters 9 (Mugur Zlotea), 10 (Ralph Weber), and 11 (Dessein Bart) focus on the significance of Confucianism in the PRC, with special regard to the ever-shifting relationship of Communist and Confucian values and practices. Finally, the volume concludes in Chapter 12 (Barbara Pihler Ciglic) with a book review of a recent anthology on Ancient China. Overall, the enterprise of this collection is praiseworthy as it succeeds in showing that, contrary to Max Weber’s dominant belief, Protestant Ethic is not absolutely essential for the advancement of modernization, and that the “East Asian model is capable of generating a non-individualistic version of modernity.”