Is There a Chinese Word for ‘Confucius’? A Review Article

Datos Bibliográficos

ID14547740
AutoresT H Barrett (0000-0002-7381-1387, SOAS University of London, autor de correspondencia)
Año1999
Volumen62
Número1
Páginas105-110
Fecha de publicación1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x00017596
OpenAlexW2042676705
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas12

The dissolution of ideological identities that had seemed since the middle of this century fairly stable would appear to be one of the characteristics of our times. In place of the struggle between Capitalism and Communism, Samuel Huntingdon would wish to erect a more fragmented competition between civilizational blocs, bearing such labels as the Confucian East and the World of Islam. Yet even such an analysis seems already distinctly old-fashioned, imposing a questionable cultural stability on more labile phenomena. As an alternative Lionel Jensen suggests that the first of these labels, at any rate, is in no small measure the creation of early European observers, and that far from basking in any unproblematic sense of identity, some of the best minds of twentieth-century China actually expended much of their ink on a highly problematic search for the origins of an identifiable Confucian group in the early Chinese past

Aesthetics · Art · Capitalism · China · Communism · Competition (biology) · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Ideology · Islam · Literature · Political science · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy