Jiaohua

Chinese Ideas and Practices of Moral Transformation
2025
ISBN: 978-981-97-9486-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Chinese Culture

This book explores the single Chinese concept and practice of “shaping the mind through education”—jiaohua—from multi-disciplinary perspectives, with a view to furthering the understanding of jiaohua, and of China more broadly. It proceeds from the assumption that the concept has played a critical role over at least two millennia in what Benjamin Schwartz described as China’s “common socio-political patterns and common cultural orientations” and holds a key to understanding Chinese culture and societies as a whole. Though a large body of scholarship in Chinese and English has shed light on various aspects of the concept, its shifting sociological significance, as it is oriented toward social questions and functions, remains under-examined. The book develops a better understanding of jiaohua on the basis of greater conceptual clarity and a broader perspective than can be found in the extant literature. In considering a range of social domains and various schools of thought on the one hand, and on the other, major shifts in the meaning, functions, and significance of jiaohua from the past to the present, this book is indispensable to students and scholars researching the various facets of Chinese society, philosophy, and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guo, Yingjie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Konfuzianismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Reconstructing Confucianism as an Edification (Jiaohua) Tradition: A New Trend in China’s Contemporary Confucian Revival.- Chapter 2. The Scripture on Great Peace: A Daoist Approach to the People’s Edification.- Chapter 3. Buddhist Jiaohua: Edification and the Practice of Buddhist Storytelling.- Chapter 4. Jiaohua through Humanistic Buddhism: From Master Taixu to Master Xingyun.- Chapter 5. Moral Cultivation in the Chinese Legal System: Contradiction or Complementary Relationship?.- Chapter 6. Jiaohua in Ming Collections of Gong’an Short Stories: Law, Punishment, and Popular Conceptions of Justice.- Chapter 7. Theatre as a Conveyor of the Way: Moral Education and Transformation through Mulianxi in Premodern China.- Chapter 8. Tool of Domination or Road to Subjectification: Rethinking Jiaohua in a Modern and Contemporary Confucian Context.- Chapter 9. Confucianism, Legalism and Jiaohua: Competing Traditions in Chinese Higher Education.- Chapter 10. Two Visions, Two Talks: Jiaohua in Mao’s Yan’an Talks and Xi’s Beijing Talks.- Chapter 11. Jiaohua: Shaping People’s Mind through Education in the Xi Jinping Era.

Über Autor(innen)

Yingjie Guo is Professor in Chinese Studies. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Shanghai International Studies University, China, and Ph.D. from the University of Tasmania, Australia. His research focuses on China's cultural nationalism and Chinese cultural identities and the discourse of class in post-Mao China. He is Author of Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary China: Searching for National identity under Reform and Co-Author of Nationalism, National Identity and Democratization in China. His recent publications include Unequal China: Political Economy and Culture Politics, Handbook of Class and Stratification in the People’s Republic of China, and Local Elites in Post-Mao China.