Confucianism and Modernisation: Industrialization and Democratization in East Asia(Industrialization and Democratization of the Confucian Regio)

Series: Industrialization and Democratization of the Confucian Regio

Wei-Bin Zhang offers an authoritative guide to the philosophy of Confucianism and its impact in the Confucian regions, covering mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam and Singapore. All, except Singapore, employed Confucianism as the state ideology before the West came to East Asia. The differences and similarities between the variety of Confucian school