Confucianism and Modernisation: Industrialization and Democratization in East Asia

by Wei-Bin Zhang

Wei-Bin Zhang offers an authoritative guide to the philosophy of Confucianism and its impact in the Confucian regions, covering mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam and Singapore. All, except Singapore, employed Confucianism as the state ideology before the West came to East Asia. The differences and similarities between the variety of Confucian schools are examined. The author concludes that the philosophical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312224117
• ISBN13: 9780312224110
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"