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An interdisciplinary exploration of the Confucian family in East Asia which includes historical, psychocultural, and gender studies perspectives.
The family is central to societies that have been profoundly influenced by the Confucian, and later Neo-Confucian, mandate. This book examines the nature of family continuities and the internal family social and psychological dynamics in societies that comprise the Confucian core of Asia, namely China (including Taiwan), Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Singapore.
Confucian ideas are discussed from diverse perspectives: religion, philosophy, and history; anthropology and sociology; psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychiatry. Both abiding psychological and social similarities as well as cultural differences are addressed. The volume provides insights on both the positive social cohesiveness found within Asian families and on the possible tensions and even psychopathological responses that may be engendered within a contemporary Confucian family. In addition, the work explores the common Confucian family-cultural background that must be understood to interpret both the scholastic and entrepreneurial success of East Asians wherever they have settled in the Americas and the recent economic push in their homelands.
"The topic of this book is significant, as a part of both the literature on the family as a social institution, and the growing literature reevaluating the Confucian tradition in industrial (and post-industrial) East Asia." — John Chaffee, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Preface
I Introduction
1. Confucius and Confucianism
Wei-Ming Tu
2. Psychocultural Dynamics within the Confucian Family
Walter H. Slote
3. Confucianism in Comparative Context
Francis L. K. Hsu
II. Historical Dimensions
4. The Korean Adoption of Neo-Confucianism: The Social Context
John Duncan
5. The Confucian Incursion into Vietnam
Nguyen Ngoc Huy
6. A Japanese Legacy of Confucian Thought
George A. De Vos
III. Hierarchy and Gender
7. Probing the "Three Bonds" and "Five Relationships" in Confucian Humanism
Wei-Ming Tu
8. The Orthodox Chinese Confucian Social Paradigm versus Vietnamese Individualism
Stephen B. Young
9. Psychocultural Features of Ancestor Worship in Modern Korean Society
Dawnhee Yim
10. Male Dominance and Mother Power: The Two Sides of Confucian Patriarchy in Korea
Haejoang Cho
11. Confucian Gender Role and Personal Fulfillment for Japanese Women
Takie. Sugiyama Lebra
IV. Contemporary Exigencies
12. Confuciansim and the Chinese Family in Singapore: Continuities and Changes
Eddie C. Kuo
13. Confucian Tradition in the Contemporary Korean Family
Kwang Kyu Lee
V. Psychocultural Continuities
14. Filial Piety in Taiwanese Popular Thought
David K. Jordan
15. Mental Illness in Its Confucian Context
Bou- Yong Rhi
16. Destiny and Determination: Psychocultural Reinforcement in Vietnam
Walter H. Slote
17. Confucian Family Socialization: The Religion, Morality, and Aesthetics of Propriety
George A. De Vos
Contributors
Subject Index
Author Index and Mentioned Terms