Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.(Features)(Book Review) From: China Review International | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: Bockover, Mary I. | COPYRIGHT 2003 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Benjamin A. Elman, John B. Duncan, and Herman Ooms, editors. Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series, 2002. vii, 643 pp. Hardcover $44.95, ISBN 1-883191-07-6. Paperback $24.95, ISBN 1-883191-06-8.

Rethinking Confucianism is a collection from the UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series consisting of sixteen excellent essays that reexamine the meaning and role of "Confucianism" in China, Ja...

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