Multidimensional Perspectives of Confucian Culture

Author: Chen Yan
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Confucian Culture in Multidimensional Perspectives is an academic work that explores Confucian culture from multiple angles and in an all-round manner. The author advocates "value neutrality and methodological diversity,", and attempts to re-examine Confucian culture and re-interpret Confucian texts from ten different perspectives, including cultural anthropology, genealogy, ecology, gender culture, semiotics, comparative culture, systems theory, cultural conflict, structuralism, and historical materialism. The methods are unique, and the insights are numerous. This is an academic work that explores Confucian culture from multiple angles and in an all-round manner. The author advocates "value neutrality, methodological diversity," and attempts to re-examine Confucian culture and re-interpret Confucian texts from ten different perspectives, including cultural anthropology, genealogy, ecology, gender culture, semiotics, comparative culture, systems theory, cultural conflict, structuralism, and historical materialism. The methods are unique, and the insights are numerous.