Confucianism for the Modern World

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PART I CONFUCIAN PERSPECTIVES ON DEMOCRACY Constitutionalism, Confucian Civic Virtue, and Ritual Propriety 31 HAHM CHAIHARK The Challenge of Accountability: Implications of the Censorate 54 JONGRYN MO Confucian Democrats in Chinese History 69 WANG JUNTAO Mutual Help and Democracy in Korea 90 CHANG YUN-SHIK A Pragmatist Understanding of Confucian Democracy 124 DAVID L. HALL AND ROGER T. AMES The Case for Moral Education 161 GEIR HELGESEN PART II CONFUCIAN PERSPECTIVES ON CAPITALISM Center-Local Relations: Can Confucianism Boost Decentralization and Regionalism? GILBERT ROZMAN Affective Networks and Modernity: The Case of Korea 201 LEW SEOK-CHOON, CHANG MI-HYE, AND KIM TAE-EUN Confucian Constraints on Property Rights 218 DANIEL A. BELL 10 Giving Priority to the Worst Off: A Confucian Perspective on Social Welfare JOSEPH CHAN PART III CONFUCIAN PERSPECTIVES ON LAW 11 Mediation, Litigation, and Justice: Confucian Reflections in a Modern Liberal Society 257 ALBERT H. Y. CHEN 12 Traditional Confucian Values and Western Legal Frameworks: The Law of Succession 288 LUSINA Ho 13 The Confucian Conception of Gender in the Twenty-First Century 312 CHAN SIN YEE 14 Family Versus the Individual: The Politics of Marriage Laws in Korea 334 HAHM CHAIBONG