Selected Handouts for Religion 471: The Confucian Tradition

• Traditional/Mythic history
• Historical periods
• Versions of the Confucian Canon

• Neo-Confucian terms
• Chu Hsi's theory of mind and methods of self-cultivation

• Bibliography: Confucianism
• Bibliography: Confucianism and East Asian Economics
• Bibliography: Asian Values and Human Rights

• "Two Cheers for Asian Values" (extracts), by Nathan Glazer
• PRC view of human rights (China Daily)
  Chou Tun-i's spirit tablet in the
  Confucian temple in Tainan, Taiwan.
• Chou Tun-i
• Translation of Chou Tun-i's T'ung-shu
• Chu Hsi's Appropriation of Chou Tun-i
• Introduction to the Study of the Classic of Change (I-hsüeh ch'i-meng), by Chu Hsi
• Chu Hsi and Divination
• Article on Neo-Confucianism and Ecology
• Article on Neo-Confucian Spirituality

• Paper Format Guide

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Edit date: 2/16/02