Confucius in East Asia

by Jeffrey L. Richey

Book Overview

Richey has written an engaging and well-crafted book that clearly delineates the oftentimes fitful development of Confucianism in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. At the same time, he masterfully demonstrates how Confucianism slowly came to dominate politics, thought, and society in each of these places and still continues to inform their assumptions, values, and institutions. Richey also expertly underscores the outsized role that government has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0924304731
• ISBN13: 9780924304736
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Association for Asian Studies
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"