Japanese Confucianism

Autorentext

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).

Klappentext

This book charts the history of Confucianism in Japan to offer new perspectives on the sociology of Confucianiam across East Asia.

Zusammenfassung
In an illuminating and provocative new study, Kiri Paramore evaluates the dynamics of Japanese Confucianism within a historical context to reveal its many cultural manifestations, as a religion and as a political tool, and as social capital and public discourse, as well as its role in international relations and statecraft.

Inhalt

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.