Confucius/Confucianism
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How Confucian Values Can Undermine Chinese Nationalism
I am thinking about the relationship between Confucian ideals and Chinese nationalism. In fact, I am giving a talk on the subject tomorrow and I want to use this space to kick around a few ideas. … Continue reading
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The Perils of Confucian Socialism, or is it Socialist Confucianism…
The revival of Confucianism in socialist China continues apace. It comes in very direct ways – from op-eds in the People’s Daily to official celebrations of his birthday – but it also comes in more indirect ways. Today,… Continue reading
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Confucian Social Science
Now here is a book I am going to go out and buy right away, based on the review by Malcolm Gladwell review in this week’s New Yorker: Charles Tilly, Why? Princeton University Press, 2006. I… Continue reading
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So, Is Confucianism a Religion? Can It Be?
A little late in posting today: the network at my work was slow, too slow to work through my usual survey of papers and blogs. I must say, however, that it was good to be back at work,… Continue reading
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Whence Religion?
An interesting review in this week’s New Yorker: H. Allen Orr discusses Daniel Dennett’s new book, "Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon." Orr tells us that Dennett is trying to construct a "science of religion," to… Continue reading
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Breaking Historical Laws
Roland, at ESWN, has provided some great coverage of the closing, and then the reopening, of the Freezing Point (Bingdian) section of the China Youth Daily newspaper. His posts are numerous and spread about his site; it is… Continue reading
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Postmodern Confucianism
In today’s Overseas Edition of the People’s Daily, Tian Chenshan, a professor at the University of Hawai’i, has a commentary that calls for revision of Confucianism in light of post-modern sensibilities: To have a post-modernist vision, an extended… Continue reading
The Useless Tree 