Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History

Author:   Kiri Paramore (Universiteit Leiden)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   249
Publication Date:   18 April 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Kiri Paramore (Universiteit Leiden)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.350kg
ISBN:  

9781107635685


ISBN 10:   1107635683
Pages:   249
Publication Date:   18 April 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Confucianism as cultural capital: mid-first millennium AD – late sixteenth century AD; 2. Confucianism as religion, 1580s–1720s; 3. Confucianism as public sphere, 1720s–1868; 4. Confucianism as knowledge, 1400s–1800s; 5. Confucianism as liberalism, 1850s–1890s; 6. Confucianism as fascism, 1868–1945; 7. Confucianism as taboo, 1945–2015; Bibliography; Index.

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'An outstanding study of the complex and multiple manifestations of Confucianism throughout Japanese history. Through rich historical analyses, Kiri Paramore reveals the surprising and often counter-intuitive roles that Confucianism has played in Japan. This is a book that challenges many of our assumptions about Confucianism and that opens up new ways of thinking about both Japanese history and Confucianism in general.' Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University, Massachusetts and author of Ritual and its Consequences 'Kiri Paramore has written a marvelous book about Confucianism in Japan as a hermeneutic tradition. It is interpreted and lived variously as establishment orthodoxy and subversive authority, as expressive individualism and fascist control, as religious truth and pragmatic dialogue. Its polymorphic role is key to grasping its enduring power in East Asia.' Prasenjit Duara, Raffles Professor of Humanities, National University of Singapore and author of The Crisis of Global Modernity 'If you want to understand the Confucian revival in China, you need to read Kiri Paramore's Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History. The book's significance goes beyond its nuanced analysis of Confucianism's multiple iterations in Japan. It also explains how Confucianism has become so central in the rise of popular cultural nationalism in China today.' William A. Callahan, London School of Economics and Political Science and author of China Dreams


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Kiri Paramore is University Lecturer in Japanese History at Leiden University. He studied Asian History at the Australian National University (BAS Hons, 1999) and worked for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade before moving to Japan to study Area Studies and Intellectual History at the University of Tokyo (MA 2003, PhD 2006). He has been awarded research fellowships from the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at Academia Sinica, Taipei, where he was Visiting Research Professor from 2011–12. His first book was Ideology and Christianity in Japan (2009).

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