Confucianism: A Short Introduction

CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
INTRODUCING CONFUCIAN LIVES......Page 12
A CONFUCIAN WORLD......Page 14
INTERNATIONAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL CONFUCIANISM......Page 15
A LIVING TRADITION......Page 17
CULTURAL CONCERNS......Page 19
CONFUCIANISM AS A WAY OF LIFE......Page 20
BEGINNING WITH BECOMING A PERSON: SELF-CULTIVATION......Page 36
QUIET-SITTING......Page 44
BACK TO THE WORLD......Page 52
THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION......Page 56
TEXTS AND COMMENTARIES......Page 60
EDUCATION AS CULTIVATION......Page 66
PREPARING FOR THE EXAMINATIONS......Page 75
TEACHERS OF THE INNER QUARTERS......Page 79
4 TRANSMITTING THE DAO......Page 88
THE CLASSICAL WORLD......Page 92
THE ORDERLY HAN......Page 99
BUDDHIST INTERRUPTIONS......Page 101
SONG REVIVALS......Page 103
CONTINUING IN THE MING AND QING......Page 111
5 EXAMINING EVIL AND GOVERNING THE QUOTIDIAN......Page 118
THE EVIL......Page 120
THE MUNDANE......Page 126
TECHNOLOGY AND FORGERY......Page 129
THE MATERIAL WORLD......Page 132
6 MEETING A WESTERN SCHOLAR......Page 138
CONTROVERSY OVER THE RITES......Page 151
7 FURNISHING THE STUDY AND HOSTING A READING......Page 156
STONES AND ROCKS......Page 157
A POETRY GATHERING......Page 164
INTERNATIONALIZATION OF CONFUCIANISM......Page 178
KOREA......Page 179
JAPAN......Page 185
INTO THE MODERN WORLD......Page 190
THE INNER SAGE AND OUTER KING......Page 196
TWO BEGINNINGS IN QUFU......Page 199
DYNASTIC AND INTELLECTUAL CHRONOLOGIES......Page 202
GLOSSARY......Page 206
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 210
INDEX......Page 212