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  • Filial Piety in Chinese Thought and History

    by Alan Chan, Sor-Hoon Tan ...
    The phenomenon of filial piety is fundamental to our understanding of Chinese culture, and this excellent collection of essays explores its role in various areas of life throughout history. Often regarded as the key to preserving Chinese tradition and identity, its potentially vast impact on government and the development of Chinese culture makes it extremely relevant, and although invariably ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Challenging Citizenship

    Group Membership and Cultural Identity in a Global Age

    Edited by Sor-hoon Tan ...
    Over the last ten years citizenship has become an area of interdisciplinary research and teaching in its own right. This book highlights that globalization poses new challenges for established understandings and practices of citizenship, and that intellectual work is required to fashion models of citizenship better suited to present problems and realities. In particular, this volume emphasizes the ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies

    Edited by Dr Sor-hoon Tan ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy
    The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies presents a new understanding of the changing methods used to study Chinese philosophy. By identifying the various different approaches and discussing the role, and significance of philosophical methods in the Chinese tradition, this collection identifies difficulties and exciting developments for scholars of Asian philosophy ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Beyond the Nation-State

    From Geopolitical Discourse to Civilizational Dialogues

    by Roger T. Ames, Roger T. Ames, Peter D. Hershock, Dr. Cheng Hong, Dr. Inho Choi, Dr. Emmanuel Desfourneaux, Dr. Krishan Kumar, Dr. Yong Li, Dr. Lorenzo Marsili0, Dr. Martin Powers1, Jana Rošker2, Sor-hoon Tan3, Dr. Dingxin Zhao4, Dr. Yiqun Zhou5 ...
    Series series Confucian Cultures
    In an era marked by geopolitical fragmentation and global crises, how can we envision a more stable and inclusive planetary order? This pioneering volume calls for a radical rethinking of international relations—moving beyond the Westphalian state system to embrace a civilizational dialogue rooted in shared histories, values, and mutual concern.The collection brings together leading scholars to ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Tianxia in Comparative Perspectives

    Alternative Models for a Possible Planetary Order

    by Roger T. Ames, Roger T. Ames, Sor-hoon Tan, Peter D. Hershock, Peter D. Hershock, Dr. Rajeev Bhargava, Liam C. Kelley, Dr. Xinfeng Kong0, Viren Murthy1, Takahiro Nakajima2, Dr. Mustapha Kamal Pasha3, Dr. Yaqing Qin4, Dr. Mogobe Bernard Ramose5, Dr. Christian Uhl6, Ban Wang7, Dr. Binfan Wang8, Dr. Qingxin Wang9, Dr. Jun-Hyeok Kwak0 ...
    Series series Confucian Cultures
    Tianxia—conventionally translated as “all-under-Heaven”—in everyday Chinese parlance simply means “the world.” But tianxia is also a geopolitical term found in canonical writings that has a deeper historical and philosophical significance. Although there are many understandings of tianxia in this literature*,* interpretations within the Chinese process cosmology generally begin with an ecological ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • One Corner of the Square

    Essays on the Philosophy of Roger T. Ames

    by Joshua Mason, Dr. Attilio Adreini, Dr. Eiho Baba, Dr. Martin Schonfeld, Jim Behuniak, Kirill Thompson, Dr. Kurtis Hagen, Haiming Wen, Dr. Thorian R. Harris0, Dr. Brian Bruya1, Steven Coutinho2, Peter Wong3, Sarah A. Mattice4, Andrew Lambert5, Carine Defoort6, Dr. Daniel Coyle7, Dr. Marty H. Heitz8, Dr. Jinmei Yuan9, Dr. Joseph Harroff0, Dr. Geir Sigurdsson1, Dr. Vytis Sililus2, Dr. James D. Sellmann3, Dr. Jing Liu4, Dr. Kuan-Hung Chen5, Sor-hoon Tan6, Dr. Amy Olberding7, Dr. Sydney Morrow8, Dr. Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee9, Peter D. Hershock0, Dr. Jason Ananda Josephson Storm1, Dr. Lauren F. Pfister2, Dr. Meilin Chinn3 ...
    In a historical moment when cross-cultural communication proves both necessary and difficult, the work of comparative philosophy is timely. Philosophical resources for building a shared future marked by vitality and collaborative meaning-making are in high demand. Taking note of the present global philosophical situation, this collection of essays critically engages the scholarship of Roger T. ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Confucianism and Deweyan Pragmatism

    Resources for a New Geopolitics of Interdependence

    by Roger T. Ames, Roger T. Ames, Yajun Chen, Peter D. Hershock, Peter D. Hershock, Barry Allen, Jim Behuniak, Richard J. Bernstein0, Jia Chen1, Mathew A. Foust2, Judith M. Green3, Viren Murthy4, Carlin Romano5, Sor-hoon Tan6, Leonard J. Waks7, Guorong Yang8 ...
    Series series Confucian Cultures
    Over the past generation, the rise of East Asia and especially China has brought about a sea change in the economic and political world order. At the same time, global warming, environmental degradation, food and water shortages, population explosion, and income inequities have created a perfect storm that threatens the very survival of humanity. It is clear now that the Westphalian model of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy

    Edited by Michael J. Sandel, Paul J. D'Ambrosio ...
    In the West, Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel is a thinker of unusual prominence. In China, he’s a phenomenon, greeted by vast crowds. China Daily reports that he has acquired a popularity “usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars.” China Newsweek declared him the “most influential foreign figure” of the year. In Sandel the Chinese have found a guide through the ethical dilemmas created by the ... Read more

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  • John Dewey, Liang Shuming, and China's Education Reform

    Cultivating Individuality

    by Huajun Zhang ...
    This book explores the central question of how to cultivate a continued sense of self in the radically changing Chinese society, a question that is highly related to the current ongoing educational reform. If education cannot respond to the problem of students’ disconnection from the changing society, learning cannot truly happen in school and the reform will fail. Zhang suggests a philosophy of ... Read more

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  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

    by Xiaotong Fei ...
    This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • All under Heaven

    The Tianxia System for a Possible World Order

    by Tingyang Zhao ...
    Series Book 3 - Great Transformations
    In this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang, one of China’s most distinguished intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China’s story and also develops a Chinese worldview for the future. Over the past few decades, the question W**here did China come from? has absorbed the thoughts of many of China's best historians. Zhao, keenly aware of the persistent and ... Read more

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  • Against Political Equality

    The Confucian Case

    by Tongdong Bai ...
    Series series The Princeton-China Series
    How a hybrid Confucian-engendered form of governance might solve today’s political problemsWhat might a viable political alternative to liberal democracy look like? In Against Political Equality, Tongdong Bai offers a possibility inspired by Confucian ideas.Bai argues that domestic governance influenced by Confucianism can embrace the liberal aspects of democracy along with the democratic ideas of ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD