Tu Wei-ming is Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Peking University, and Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies, Emeritus, Harvard University. He directed the Harvard-Yenching Institute from 1996 to 2008.

• * Preface * Introduction I. Intellectual and Institutional Resources * Confucian Education in Premodern East Asia W.M. Theodore De Bary * Reflections on Civil Society and Civility in the Chinese Intellectual Tradition Edward Shils * The Intellectual Heritage of the Confucian Ideal of Ching-shih Chang Had * Confucian Ideals and the Real World: A Critical Review of Contemporary Neo-Confucian Thought Liu Shu-Hsien II. Japan *"They Are Almost the Same as the Ancient Three Dynasties": The West as Seen through Confucian Eyes in Nineteenth-Century Japan Watanabe Hiroshi * Confucianism and the Japanese State, 1904-1945 Samuel Hideo Yamashita * The Japanese (Confucian) Family: The Tradition from the Bottom Up Robert J. Smith * Some Observations on the Transformation of Confucianism (and Buddhism) in Japan S. N. Eisenstadt III. South Korea and Taiwan * Confucianism in Contemporary Korea Koh Byong-ik * The Reproduction of Confucian Culture in Contemporary Korea: An Anthropological Study Kim Kwang-ok * State Confucianism and Its Transformation: The Restructuring of the State-Society Relation in Taiwan Ambrose Y. C. King * Civil Society in Taiwan: The Confucian Dimension Thomas B. Gold IV. Hong Kong, Singapore, and Overseas Chinese Communities * The Transformation of Confucianism in the Post-Confucian Era: The Emergence of Rationalistic Traditionalism in Hong Kong Ambrose Y. C. King * Promoting Confucianism for Socioeconomic Development: The Singapore Experience John Wong * Confucianism as Political Discourse in Singapore: The Case of an Incomplete Revitalization Movement Eddie C. Y. Kuo * Societal Transformation and the Contribution of Authority Relations and Cooperation Norms in Overseas Chinese Business S. Gordon Redding * Overseas Chinese Capitalism Gary G. Hamilton * Epilogue * Notes * Glossary * Contributors * Index

In this excellent volume, the editor Tu Wei-ming has brought together one of the best specialist collections of papers on the role and significance of Confucianism in contemporary East Asia. The book’s strength lies in three distinct areas: its geographical breadth…its historical depth…and its interdisciplinary mix… [A] rich and complex volume.