Confucianism: a Short Introduction

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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.;Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 INTRODUCTORY REFLECTIONS; Introducing Confucian lives; A Confucian world; International and cross-cultural Confucianism; A living tradition; Cultural concerns; Confucianism as a way of life; 2 THE CULTIVATION OF THE SELF; Beginning with becoming a person: self-cultivation; Quiet-sitting; Back to the world; 3 EDUCATING THE PERSON; The importance of education; Texts and commentaries; Education as cultivation; Preparing for the examinations; Teachers of the inner quarters; 4 TRANSMITTING THE DAO; The classical world; The orderly Han. Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements 1 INTRODUCTORY REFLECTIONS Introducing Confucian lives A Confucian world International and cross-cultural Confucianism A living tradition Cultural concerns Confucianism as a way of life 2 THE CULTIVATION OF THE SELF Beginning with becoming a person: self-cultivation Quiet-sitting Back to the world 3 EDUCATING THE PERSON The importance of education Texts and commentaries Education as cultivation Preparing for the examinations Teachers of the inner quarters 4 TRANSMITTING THE DAO The classical world The orderly Han. Buddhist interruptionsSong revivals Continuing in the Ming and Quing 5 EXAMINING EVIL AND GOVERNING THE QUOTIDIAN The evil The mundane Technology and forgery The material world 6 MEETING A WESTERN SCHOLAR Controversy over the rites 7 FURNISHING THE STUDY AND HOSTING A READING Stones and rocks A poetry gathering 8 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 Dynastic and intellectual chronologies Glossary Bibliography Index.