Asian Studies Program
Joseph Adler

Links for Confucianism

Practicing Taijiquan / T'ai-chi ch'uan in the outer garden of the Taipei Confucian Temple (click image for larger view).

• ConfucianStudies.com: good list of resources
• "Confucianism" by Tu Weiming (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• Overview of Confucianism (Yao Xinzhong)
  • Historical periods and schools
• Early Confucianism (chapter 3 from an online textbook, Topics in Premodern Chinese History, by Gregory Smits -- see also chapter 9, Later Confucianism)
• Confucian Philosophy (articles from the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Confucian Lexicon (in Chinese) and Images (Lao Sze-kwang)
• Confucius (a pretty good general site)
• Confucian E-texts (Chinese texts)
• Confucius Publ. Co. (a few texts, lots of pictures)
• Confucius 2000 (an excellent site containing much current scholarship on Confucianism in the PRC, reflecting the re-evaluation of Confucianism occurring there today, including its religious dimensions -- but unfortunately in Chinese only)
• Thomé H. Fang Institute (containing many articles in English on Chinese philosophy)
• Zhu Xi net (in Chinese only)

• Confucian Classics (Ulrich Theobald)
• Four of the Five Classics (trans. James Legge)
• Classic of Songs (Shijing / Shih Ching: English Introduction, Chinese Preface by Zhu Xi / Chu Hsi, text in Chinese and English)
• The Li-chi (Record of Ritual):
  • Part I
  • Part II
• Zuo Zhuan (Tso-chuan) excerpts
• The "Four Books" (Analects, Great Learning, The Mean, Mencius):
  • James Legge's translations (late 19th c.)
  • Charles Muller's translations (late 20th c.)
• The Analects (in English and Chinese, trans. James Legge, from Sacred Books of the East)
• The Analects (in English and Chinese, trans. uncredited, from Confucius Publishing Co.)
• The Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety
  • Partial translation by Lydia Gerber
  • Complete translation by Dharma Master Heng Sure
    
    
• Traditions of Exemplary Women (Lieh-nü chuan, with English introduction, Chinese text, and illustrations)
  • Traditions of Exemplary Women (some of the same material, with some of the biographies translated into English)
• Pan Chao (Ban Zhao), author of Lessons for Women
• "Perspectives on Foot-binding" by Dorothy Ko (AsiaNetwork Exchange, 2008)
• Mencius and Masculinities: Dynamics of Power, Morality, and Maternal Thinking, by Joanne D. Birdwhistell: chapter 1

• "Confucian Theology: Three Models" by Yong Huang (2007)
• Articles on Kant and Confucianism (Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 2006)
• "The Confucian World View: Uncommon Assumptions, Common Misconceptions" by Roger Ames (AsiaNetwork Exchange, 1997)
• "Confucian Commentary and Chinese Intellectual History" by Daniel Gardner (1998)
• Zhang Zai / Chang Tsai: "The great benefit of learning is to enable one to transform the physical nature by oneself."
• Zhou Dunyi's "Taijitu shuo" in the Daozang (Daoist Canon)
• "The Place and Meaning of the Notion of Taiji in Taoist Sources Prior to the Ming Dynasty" by Isabelle Robinet (an important article; JSTOR access required)
• "The World of Thought in Chu Hsi's Time," by Julia Ching (pdf file)
• "Zhu Xi" (a decent encyclopedia article)
• Confucianism and Ecology, by Mary Evelyn Tucker
• Confucianism and Modernity, by Tu Wei-ming
• "Asian Values," by Nathan Glazer
• "Administrative Concepts in Confucianism and their Influence on Development in Confucian Countries" by Dao Minh Chau (Asian Journal of Public Administration, June 1996)
• Hu Fang-Ping's Yixue Qimeng tongshi (a Qing dynasty commentary on Zhu Xi's Introduction to the Study of the Classic of Change)
  
  
• Confucius: At the Dawn of Chinese Humanism (in French): exhibit at the Musee Guimet, Paris, 10/29/03 - 3/15/04
  • NY Times article
• Atlantic Monthly article (April 1999) about recent books, Manufacturing Confucianism and The Original Analects
• "Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Criticize Lin Piao and Confucius" (pamphlet from the Cultural Revolution, 1972)
• "The Confucian Tradition and Chinese Television Today" (from Curriculum Guide to China Rises, a television series and interactive website)
  
  
• Confucian Temples (Thomas Wilson, Hamilton College)
• Tainan Confucian Temple (photos)
• Annual ritual for Confucius (2-minute video, produced by ROC govt.)
• Hanoi Confucian Temple (pictures and short description)
  
  Recent "Confucius fever" in China:
• "China turns to Confucius, with a modern twist" (LA Times, 5/7/07)
• "Racing ahead, China resurrects its past" (Asia Times, 5/8/07)
• "Yu Dan: defender of traditional culture, force for harmony" (Danwei, 5/8/07)
• "China's thriving Confucian schools" (BBC, 1/3/08)

• Korean Confucianism:
• To Become a Sage: The Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning, by Yi T'oegye (1501-1570), trans. by Michael Kalton (University of Washington, Tacoma)
• The Four-Seven Debate: An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought (book review; requires JSTOR access)
• "Ch'eng-Chu Orthodoxy and the Four-Seven Debate: A Discussion of Yi T'oegye and Ki Kobong" by Steven L. Austin (MA thesis, University of Arizona)
• Bibliography of Korean Confucianism (2004)
• T'oegye Yi Hwang: A Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources in Western Languages (2001)