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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[An] informative volume of immense sweep ... brimming with ideas... Its call for regional studies is most welcome; one hopes it will be followed by other works as sensitive to the complexities and ambiguities of history and society."--Conrad Schirokauer, The Journal of Asian Studies "A thought-provoking book that repays close study."--Wolf Mendl, Pacific Review "These distinguished essays make a major contribution to the debate over how Confucianism has affected East Asian modernization."--Orbis
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*PREFACE, pg. vii*CONTRIBUTORS, pg. xi*INTRODUCTION The East Asian Region in Comparative Perspective, pg. 3*CHAPTER 1. The Chinese Family and the Spread of Confucian Values, pg. 45*CHAPTER 2. The Confucianization of Korean Society, pg. 84*CHAPTER 3. The Legacy of Confucianism in Japan, pg. 111*CHAPTER 4. Comparisons of Modern Confucian Values in China and Japan, pg. 157*CHAPTER 5. Perceptions of Confucianism in Twentieth-Century Korea, pg. 204*Index, pg. 227
