The contributors to this volume range over 2,000 years of history as they show how Confucian values spread throughout the region in premodern times and how these values were transformed in an age of modernization. The introduction by Gilbert Rozman discusses the special character of East Asia. In Part I Patricia Ebrey analyzes the Confucianization
Reviews
"[An] informative volume of immense sweep ... brimming with ideas... Its call for regional studies is most welcome; one hopes it will be followed by other works as sensitive to the complexities and ambiguities of history and society."--Conrad Schirokauer, The Journal of Asian Studies "A thought-provoking book that repays close study."--Wolf Mendl, Pacific Review "These distinguished essays make a major contribution to the debate over how Confucianism has affected East Asian modernization."--Orbis
