The East Asian Region: Confucian Heritage and Its Modern Adaptation

Book Overview

The contributors to this volume range over 2,000 years of history as they show how Confucian values spread throughout the region in premodern times and how these values were transformed in an age of modernization. The introduction by Gilbert Rozman discusses the special character of East Asia. In Part I Patricia Ebrey analyzes the Confucianization of China; JaHyun Kim Haboush, that of Korea; and Martin Collcutt, the much later diffusion of Confucianism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691024855
• ISBN13: 9780691024851
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"