The Confucian Renaissance shows how the Confucian vision of a citizen's place in and responsibility to society has affected politics, business, education, law, and the bureaucracy in Asia--and how these areas have been organised differently from their Western counterparts, in ways seemingly more appropriate to the modern world.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The centre of the world: a Confucian tradition
The Christian barbarians
The liberation of Asia
Post-1945: an English-speaking order
The Confucian revival
The use of the US-USSR conflict
The outposts of empire
The spiritual and intellectual failure of the West
The leader: Japan or China?
The 21st century: a new world order
Index