Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World.(Book Review)

From: Philosophy East and West | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

By Robert Cummings Neville. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. Pp. xxxv + 258.

At an international conference in 1991, people began to refer to Robert Neville and his colleagues as "Boston Confucians." At first the phrase was used as affectionate teasing and tongue-in-cheek self-description. However, Neville reports that, by the end of the conference, the phrase "Boston Confucianism" had come to be used as a semi-serious label for a particular view: the position that "Confucianism is not limited to East Asian ethnic application" and that it "has something ...

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