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Daniel A. Bell is Associate Professor in the Department of Public and Social Administration at the City University of Hong Kong. Hahm Chaihark is Chair Professor of Korean Studies Program at Yonsei University.
1 Introduction: The Politics of Affective Relations in East Asia 2 Part I:Toward a Political Theory of Affective Relations 3 Confucian Perspectives on Pluralism, Gender Equality, and the Family 4 Confucianism and the Public Sphere: Five Relationships Plus One? 5 Exploring the Non-familial in Confucian Political Philosophy 6 Is a Confucian Family-Oriented Civil Society Possible? 7 The Personal is Political: Confucianism and Liberal Feminism 8 Part II:Probing the History of Affective Relations 9 Selected Confucian Networks and Values in Society and the Economy 10 The Political Ambiguity of Voluntary Associations: Chinese Forms of Civic Possibility, Past and Present 11 Rethinking Civil Society in China: An Interpretative Approach 12 Democracy in Korea and the Myth of Civil Society 13 Part III: Locating Affective Relations in Institutional Contexts 14 From Relations to Rules: A Theoretical Explanation and Empirical Evidence 15 Social Networks, Electronic Commerce and Economic Liberalization in China 16 Social Networks, Civil Society, Democracy and Rule of Law: A New Conceptual Framework 17 Negotiating Confucian Civility Through Constitutional Discourse
This book brings the study of Confucian values fully into current-day social science scholarship.It draws on the appropriate disciplinary studies, examines long-term change in Chinese and Korean societies through solid evidence, and refrains from both idealizing East Asian ways and assuming that they are disappearing in favor of Western practices. More than other sources, it explains how and why approaches to human relations in this region continue to have distinctive features....
— Gilbert Rozman, Princeton University