Nobility and Civility

Wm Theodore de Bary

• Hardcover | Engels
• Globalization has become an inescapable fact of contemporary life. Some leaders, in both the East and the West, believe that human rights are culture-... Lees meer

East Asian Civilizations

Wm Theodore de Bary

• Paperback | Engels | Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures | nr. 1
• De Bary constructs a magisterial overview of three thousand years of East Asian civilizations, principally in the form of dialogues among the major sy... Lees meer

Asian Values and Human Rights

Wm Theodore de Bary

• Paperback | Engels | Wing-Tsit Chan Memorial Lectures
• Since the horrific Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the debate on human rights in China has raged on with increasing volume and shifting context, bu... Lees meer

The Great Civilized Conversation

Wm Theodore de Bary

• Hardcover | Engels
• Having spent decades teaching and researching the humanities, Wm. Theodore de Bary is well positioned to speak on its merits and reform. Believing a c... Lees meer

The Trouble with Confucianism

Wm Theodore de Bary

• Paperback | Engels | Tanner Lectures on Human Values | nr. 3
• In Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and other parts of East and Southeast Asia, as well as China, people are asking, "What does Confucianism have to o... Lees meer

The Great Civilized Conversation

Wm Theodore de Bary

• Paperback | Engels
• The world-renowned scholar suggests a new approach to education that can sustain humanistic learning in a globalized culture. Lees meer

Learning for Oneself

Wm Theodore de Bary

• Hardcover | Engels | Neo-Confucian Studies
• Well known as a scholar of Asian culture, de Bary examines the concepts of self-understanding and self-cultivation in neo-Confucian thought from the 1... Lees meer

Waiting for the Dawn

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics (Paperback)
• The Ming-i Tai-fang Lu of Huang Tsunghsi (1610-1695) is unique in the history of Chinese Political literature. Since the time of Confucius and Mencius... Lees meer

Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy and the Learning of the Mind-And-Heart

Wm Theodore de Bary

• Paperback | Engels | Neo-Confucian Studies
• This volume adds to our understanding of the development of Neo-Confucianism - its complexity, diversity, richness, and depth as a major component of ... Lees meer