Confucius and Confucianism

Last update: 03 Oct 1994 12:00
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Western views over time. Absence from current popular and semi-popular views of east Asian thought.

Recommended:
• Confucius, Analects, trans. Arthur Waley.
• H. G. Creel, Confucius and the Chinese Way
• John B. Henderson, The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Neo-Confucian, Islamic, Jewish, and Early Christian Patterns
• Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China, vol. II

To read:
• John H. Berthrong, Transformations of the Confucian Way
• Joseph Chan, Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times [This sounds like an exercise in intellectual virtuosity than anything else, but "to be shot after a fair trial"...]
• Sachiko Murata, William C. Chittick and Tu Weiming, The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms
• Michael Nylan, The Five "Confucian" Classics
• Yuri Pines, Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectual Life in the Chunqiu Period, 722-453 B.C.E
• Kwong-Loi Shun and David Wong (eds.), Confucian Ethics: A Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy and Community
• Anna Sun, Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities
• Xinzhong Yao, An Introduction to Confucianism