The Encyclopedia of Confucianism: 2-volume set

This unique reference covers Confucianism as a whole, in 1235 entries on its history, doctrines, schools, rituals, sacred places and terminology, and on the new thinking taking place in China and other Eastern Asian countries. Written by an international team of specialists, it provides extensive textual cross-references, bibliographies, and three comprehensive indexes. Entries include: * Altar to the Sun * Benran zhixing (Original human nature) * Boshi (Erudites or Academicians) * Cheng Duanmeng (1143-1191) * Chijing (Holding or maintaining seriousness) * Ching, Julia (1934-2001) * Chuanxi Lu (Instructions for Practical Living) * Confucianism and Capitalism * Confucianism and Christianity * Dade xiaode (Great virtue and petty virtue) * Da zhangfu (Great man) * E (Evil, disagreeable, to dislike) * Fan Zhen, (1008-89;ziJingren) * Fufu (Husband and wife) * Gong (Acting for public interests) * He Lin (1902-1992,ziZizhao) * Jiaohua (To educate and transform) * Kaitokudo(the Merchant Academy of Osaka) * Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters) * Liangxin (the good or innate mind) * Luan (Disorder, chaos) * Min (The people, the masses) * Neisheng waiwang (Sageliness within, kingliness without) * Ping tianxia (Making the world peaceful) * Qi qing (Seven emotions) * Renlun (Human relationships) * Rites of Passage * Rujia bapai (The eight Confucian factions) * Sang li (Rites of mourning and burial) * Se (Countenance, sensual beauty) * Tianxia (The World) * Wu Jing (The Five Classics) * Xian sheng (the First Sage) * Yan Zhitui (531-591,ziJie) * Zhangyou (Senior-junior relationship) * And many more.

Contents includes: General Survey entries:Confucian Classics Confucian Education Confucian Iconography Confucian Politics Confucianism and Arts Confucianism and Literature Confucianism and Marxism Confucianism and Women Confucian Masters and Scholars:Confucius Mengzi Dong Zhongshu Zhu Xi Kang Youwei Yi Hwang Ito Jinsai Tu Wei-ming Confucian Schools:Baijia (Hundred households) Cheng-Zhu xuepai (The School of the Cheng Brothers and Zhu Xi) Jinwen jingxue ('Modern script' classicism) International Association of Confucian Studies Confucian Terms and Concepts:Boshi (Erudites or Academicians) Daotong (Transmission of the Way) Four-Seven Debate (Sadan Ch'iljòng Non ) Liujing zhuwo (The Six Classics) Shinju goichi/funi Confucian Sacred Places and Rituals:Sacrifice to Heaven Ancestral worship Temple of Confucius Rites of mourning and burial