Confucianism and East Asian Economics

  • Roderick McFarquhar, "The Post-Confucian Challenge," in The Economist (Feb. 9,1980)

  • Ronald Philip Dore, Taking Japan Seriously: A Confucian Perspective on Leading Economic Issues (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987).

  • Peter L. Berger and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, eds., In Search of an East Asian Development Model (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1988)
    • An East Asian development model? / Peter L. Berger
    • An East Asian development model / Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
    • The newAsian capitalism / Gustav Papanek
    • The new Asian capitalism / Lucian W. Pye
    • The role of the entrepreneur in the new Asian capitalism / S.G. Redding
    • The role of Christianity / Jan Swyngedouw
    • The applicability of Asian family values to other sociocultural settings / Siu-lun Wong
    • The distinctive features of Japanese development / Iwao Munakata
    • The distinctive features of Taiwan's development / Rong-I Wu
    • The distinctive features of South Korea's development / Kyong-Dong Kim
    • The distinctive features of two city-states' development / Pan Eng Fong

  • Hung-chao Tai, ed., Confucianism and Economic Development: An Oriental Alternative? (Washington, D.C.: Washington Institute Press, 1989)
    • The oriental alternative / Hung-chao Tai
    • Economic performance in five East Asian countries / Yuan-li Wu and Hung-chao Tai
    • Historical factors affecting China's economic underdevelopment / Hang-sheng Cheng
    • Confucianism and Japanese modernization : a study of Shibusawa Eiichi / Kuo-hui Tai
    • The divergent economic development of China and Japan / Edward F. Hartfield
    • Republic of China's experiences with economic development / Yi- ting Wong
    • Entrepreneurial role and societal development in Taiwan / Wen-lang Li
    • The impact of chinese culture on Korea's economic development / Young-iob Chung
    • Modernization and Chinese cultural traditions in Hong Kong / Siu-lun Wong
    • Bridging tradition and modernization: the Singapore bureaucracy / Thomas J. Bellows

  • Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, Conference on Confucianism and Economic Development in East Asia (Taipei: CIER Press, 1989)
    • Many papers on various topics, from a conference held in Taipei

  • Tu Wei-ming, ed., The Triadic Chord: Confucian Ethics, Industrial East Asia and Max Weber (Proceedings of the 1987 Singapore Conference on Confucian Ethics and the Modernisation of Industrial East Asia) (Singapore: Institute of East Asian Philosophies, 1991)

  • Ezra F. Vogel, The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991)

  • Christian Jochim, "Confucius and Capitalism: Views of Confucianism in Works on Confucianism and Economic Development," in Journal of Chinese Religions, no. 20 (1992)

  • Tu Weiming, Milan Hejtmanek, and Alan Wachman, eds., The Confucian World Observed: A Contemporary Discussion of Confucian Humanism in East Asia (Honolulu: East-West Center, 1992)

  • Tu Wei-ming, ed., Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996)
    Especially:
    • Ambrose Y. C. King, "The Transformation of Confucianism in the Post-Confucian Era: The Emergence of Rationalistic Traditionalism in Hong Kong" (pp. 259-276)
    • John Wong, "Promoting Confucianism for Socioeconomic Development: The Singapore Experience" (pp. 277-293)

For Reference:

  • Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
  • Max Weber, The Religion of China
  • Critiques of Weber:
    • Thomas A. Metzger, Escape from Predicament: Neo-Confucianism and China's Evolving Political Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977) -- the first two pages and (especially) the footnotes to those pages
    • Thomas A. Metzger, A Cloud Across the Pacific: Essays on the Clash between Chinese and Western Political Theories Today (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2005).