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Article: Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.(Features)(Book Review)
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- China Review International
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- September 22, 2003
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Benjamin A. Elman, John B. Duncan, and Herman Ooms, editors. Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series, 2002. vii, 643 pp. Hardcover $44.95, ISBN 1-883191-07-6. Paperback $24.95, ISBN 1-883191-06-8.
Rethinking Confucianism is a collection from the UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series consisting of sixteen excellent essays that reexamine the meaning and role of "Confucianism" in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam largely in light of two central presuppositions. The first is that Confucius represents the cultural backwardness and conservative agendas that many progressive thinkers in ...