I’m happy to announce that my essay “Confucian Nei-Wai Citizenship” has ben published open-access in the Journal of International Political Theory. Comments welcome!
Category Archives: Comparative Political Theory
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New post in the series “Family as Topic, Root and Model in the West: An Ephemeral Resource for Comparative Philosophy.” Continue reading →
New Article: Kim, “Contemporary Confucian Political Theory: Its Origin, Evolution, and Challenges”
Sungmoon Kim’s major review essay, “Contemporary Confucian Political Theory: Its Origin, Evolution, and Challenges,” has been published in Political Theory; see here. The Abstract follows.
Book available: Qiu and Bunin eds., Collected Papers of Four Conferences on Democracy, Rule of Law, Human Rights, Good Governance
Nicholas Bunin has shared with me that a new book has just been published: Qiu Renzong and Nicholas Bunnin, eds, Collected Papers of Four Conferences on Democracy, Rule of Law, Human Rights, Good Governance 《政治哲学各论》 (Beijing, privately published, 2025). The PDF of this book is available free of charge for any students, colleagues and institutions that might benefit from using the text for research, teaching, study, review, printing paper copies or library acquisition. Please contact Professor Bunin with any questions.
Jin Reviews Li, Confucian Comparative Political Philosophy
Yong Li, Confucian Comparative Political Philosophy, Routledge, 128pp., $200.00 (hbk) ISBN 9781032671871.
Reviewed by Yutang Jin, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong
In philosophical works, it is difficult to combine bold innovation with intellectual humility. The reason is straightforward—to show creativity, an author is tempted to grandstand about their originality. I consider Yong Li’s Confucian Comparative Political Philosophy one of the rare cases where the author successfully combines each of these two virtues without sacrificing the other. This book is a recent intervention in contemporary Confucian political theory, an increasingly important field that connects the Confucian intellectual tradition and cultural practices to normative questions in political theory. Written with exceptional analytical rigor and high accessibility, this book can serve as an ideal reference…
New Article: Tong, Defensible Democratic Meritocracy
Zhichao TONG’s article “Defensible Democratic Meritocracy: A Competition-Based Account” has been published in the British Journal of Political Science; see here. The abstract follows.
New Article: Jin on Xu Fuguan
Jin Yutang (Politics and public Administration, HKU) has published a new article in The History of Political Thought titled “Confucian Virtue Politics in Modern Times: A Reappraisal of Xu Fuguan’s Confucian Democracy.” See here for abstract and other information.
Roundtable on Radical Democracy in Chinese Thought at Univ. of Toronto
On September 5, there will be a “Roundtable on Radical Democracy in Chinese Thought” at the University of Toronto — details here, including free registration.
Angle Reviews Ziliotti, Meritocratic Democracy
The Review of Politics recently published a review I wrote of Elena Ziliotti’s excellent book Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory (Oxford, 2024). Please see here for the review.
New Book: Yong LI, Confucian Comparative Political Philosophy
Routledge has just published Yong LI’s new book, Confucian Comparative Political Philosophy; see here for the publisher’s webpage. Here’s its description and Table of Contents:
