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Talkin’ ‘Bout My Parents’ Generation: Translating Confucian Ethics and Family Values

by Jonathan R. Herman

In a fine recent EAA feature article, David Jones addresses the challenge of making Chi­nese philosophy and religion relevant to the Western imagination by charting a structured course through the Confucian Analects.1 Jones’s strategy, a fairly typical one among scholars of Chinese thought, is to focus on a handful of loaded terms from the Confucian lexicon—li (ritual propriety), ren (human-heartedness), junzi (exemplary person), and yi (rightness)—explicating them within their semantic c...

Feature Article

Talkin’ ‘Bout My Parents’ Generation: Translating Confucian Ethics and Family Values

by Jonathan R. Herman

In a fine recent EAA feature article, David Jones addresses the challenge of making Chinese philosophy and religion relevant to the Western imagination by charting a structured course through the Confucian Analects. (note 1) Jones’s strategy, a fairly typical one among scholars of Chinese thought, is to focus on a handful of loaded terms from the Confucian lexicon—li (ritual propriety), ren (human-heartedness), junzi (exemplary person), and yi (rightness)—explicating them within their sema...

Feature Article

Framing the Way: Introducing and Concluding the Chinese Religion Survey Course

by Jonathan R. Herman

by Jonathan R. Herman When teachers of Chinese religion meet to discuss pedagogical strategies, our conversations usually reflect an almost prurient fixation on one aspect of the syllabus. While my colleagues and I certainly acknowledge the importance of course organization and methods of evaluation, we invariably devote most of our attention to the selection of readings and films, as though it were self-evident that the textual and cinematic resources exclusively determined the success or fa...

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