Yutang Jin’s article “What Progressive Confucians Still Owe Us: Three Challenges to Progressive Confucianism” has been published by Philosophia.
Author Archives: Wenwan Shen
Liu Reviews Kim, A Confucian Theory of Power
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Sungmoon Kim, A Confucian Theory of Power, Manchester University Press, 2026, 232pp, $130.00 (hbk) ISBN 9781526182661.
Reviewed by Antong Liu, Singapore Management University
The main body of this book is an extensive essay by Sungmoon Kim on the concept of power and its evolution in Confucian political thought. While arguably underlying any attempt to theorize politics, power “remains one of the least examined concepts” in the Confucian tradition (7). This lack of attention to power, as Kim claims, correlates with scholars’ overemphasis on Confucian moral virtue (3) but weakens the potential for Confucianism to thrive as a robust political theory in contemporary East Asia (8). To mitigate it, Kim begins by interpreting several moments in the ancient history of Confucian political thought in…
New Book: Kim, A Kingdom of Righteousness
Sungmoon Kim’s new book, A Kingdom of Righteousness: Neo-Confucianism and Political Theory in Traditional Korea, has been published by Cambridge University Press. See here and below for more details.
New Book: Ho, Worldly Indeterminacy
Chien-hsing Ho’s monograph Worldly Indeterminacy has now been published online by Oxford University Press as an Open Access title. See here and below for more details. Continue reading →
ToC: Asian Philosophy 36:4
The latest issue of Asian Philosophy has been published. Please see here and below for the Table of Contents.
BSHP Workshop Announcement: Generalisation and De-reification
Online Workshop: Generalisation and De-reification: Cross-Cultural History of Philosophy in East Asia and Beyond
The British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP) will hold an online workshop, “Generalisation and De-reification: Cross-Cultural History of Philosophy in East Asia and Beyond,” on 20 November 2026, 09:00 UK (GMT) / 17:00 China (CST) / 20:00 Sydney (AEDT).
New Article: Galvany, How to Lose Weight with Confucius
Albert Galvany’s article “How to Lose Weight with Confucius: Immodesty, Inner Struggle, and Moral Learning of Yan Yuan in the Junzi wei li 君子為禮” has been published by the Center of Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts of Wuhan University.
Baker Reviews Ivanhoe and Wang at NDPR
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Philip J. Ivanhoe and Hwa Jeong Wang, Readings in Korean Confucian Philosophy, Hackett Publishing, 2026, 392pp., $32.00 (pbk) ISBN 9781647922559.
Reviewed by Don Baker, University of British Columbia
When I first held Ivanhoe and Wang’s Readings in Korean Confucian Philosophy in my hands and leafed through it, I immediately regretted retiring from teaching a couple of months earlier. I had taught Korean cultural history for decades but, since most of my students couldn’t read Korean or Classical Chinese, I couldn’t include substantial excerpts from the writings of Korean Confucian philosophers among the primary sources I asked them to read. Now that I was no longer teaching undergraduates, I had finally found a book with material I could have assigned. Moreover, the excerpts translated are short enough (with the exception…
Conference Announcement: NECCT 2026 at Bentley University
The 2026 meeting of the Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought (NEECT) will take place on October 30-31 at Bentley University. Please see here for more details, or read on for the program.
Chinese Translation of Foust, Confucianism and American Philosophy
Northwest University Press (西北大学出版社) has published a Chinese translation of Mathew Foust’s book, Confucianism and American Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2017): [美] 马修·A. 福斯特著，张亲霞译，《儒学与美国哲学》，西北大学出版社，2026年7月，ISBN 9787560460895. More information from Douban is available here.
