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In favour of the disadvantaged: ritual in Xunzi and the modern worldIn David Solomon, Ruiping Fan & Bingxiang Luo (eds.), Ritual and the moral life: reclaiming the tradition, Springer. 2012.
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15Qingdao: the city of idealsCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 25 (5): 667-682. 2022.
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16Assessing China’s Political System. A Response to CommentsPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 7 (1). 2017.Download.
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12The China Model: A PrécisPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 7 (1). 2017.Download.
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Forms of Justice: Critical Perspectives on David Miller's Political PhilosophyPhilosophical Quarterly 55 (218): 146-148. 2005.
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National Citizenship and Migrant Workers in East AsiaIn Will Kymlicka & Baogang He (eds.), Multiculturalism in Asia, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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42Jiang Qing's Political ConfucianismIn Ruiping Fan (ed.), The Renaissance of Confucianism in Contemporary China, Springer. pp. 139--152. 2011.
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6Justice for migrant workers? The case of foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong and SingaporeIn Will Kymlicka & Baogang He (eds.), Multiculturalism in Asia, Oxford University Press. pp. 196--222. 2005.oxford university press
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East Asia and the West: The Impact of Confucianism on Anglo‐American Political TheoryIn John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig & Anne Phillips (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, Oxford University Press. 2006.This article explores the influence of Confucianism on Anglo-American political theory. It describes two recent developments in contemporary Anglo-American political theory which have allowed for substantial engagement with Confucian political theory and may set the stage for further interest in East Asian political theory more generally. One is the communitarian critique of liberal universalism and the other is the feminist emphasis on the politics of the family. This article discusses East Asi…Read more
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30Forgiveness and the End of EconomyStudies in Christian Ethics 20 (3): 325-344. 2007.This paper considers the economic effect of the Christian practice of forgiveness. In particular, the argument is that the gift of divine forgiveness in Christ, as articulated by Anselm, interrupts `economy' (with its logic of scarcity, debt, and finally death) and puts in place an aneconomic order (with its theo-logic of abundance, ceaseless generosity, and resurrection) that is full of the promise of deliverance from the affliction of capitalism. Also addressed here is the way that the human r…Read more
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17Book Review: John Atherton, Transfiguring Capitalism: An Enquiry into Religion and Global Change (London: SCM Press, 2008). x + 342 pp. £30.00 (pb), ISBN 978—0—334—02831—4 (review)Studies in Christian Ethics 23 (2): 205-207. 2010.
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Realizing TianxiaIn Tze-Ki Hon (ed.), Confucianism for the contemporary world: global order, political plurality, and social action, State University of New York Press. pp. 45-64. 2017.
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23Sacrifice and Suffering: Beyond Justice, Human Rights, and CapitalismModern Theology 18 (3): 333-359. 2002.This essay recovers the redemptive significance of “sacrifice” as the form of Christian resistance to global capitalism. The argument unfolds by way of a comparison of sacrifice, as presented by Anselm, with one of the most compelling contemporary theological accounts of justice and human rights—that of the Latin American liberationists. After showing how the liberationists' vision is implicated in the capitalist order, I argue that Anselm's account of sacrifice displays the advent of the anecon…Read more
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27Bearing the Weight of Salvation: The Soteriology of Ignacio Ellacuría – By Michael E. LeeModern Theology 26 (4): 686-689. 2010.
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17Just Policing, Not War: An Alternative Response to World Violence – Edited by Gerald W. SchlabachModern Theology 25 (4): 692-694. 2009.
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22The ethics of international human rights non-governmental organizationsIn Thomas Cushman (ed.), Handbook of human rights, Routledge. pp. 444. 2012.
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1Roles, Community, and MoralityIn James Behuniak (ed.), Appreciating the Chinese Difference: Engaging Roger T. Ames on Methods, Issues, and Roles, Suny Press. pp. 203-211. 2018.
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5Book Review: Ransomed, Redeemed, and Forgiven: Money and the Atonement by David H. McIlroy (review)Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1): 167-170. 2024.
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1366Confucianism and ubuntu: Reflections on a dialogue between chinese and african traditionsJournal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (s1): 78-95. 2011.In this article we focus on three key precepts shared by Confucianism and the African ethic of Ubuntu: the central value of community, the desirability of ethical partiality, and the idea that we tend to become morally better as we grow older. For each of these broad similarities, there are key differences underlying them, and we discuss those as well as speculate about the reasons for them. Our aim is not to take sides, but we do suggest ways that Ubuntu and Confucianism might have something to…Read more
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31Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the WorldPrinceton University Press. 2020.A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the political All complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world. Just Hierarchy contends that this stigma is a mistake. In fact, as Daniel Bell and Wang Pei show, it is neither possible nor advisable to do away with social hierarchies. Drawing their arguments from Chinese thought and culture as well as other…Read more
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7Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power (edited book)Princeton University Press. 2011.The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influential foreign policy thinker, sets out a vision for the coming decades from China's point of view. In the West, Yan Xuetong is often regarded as a hawkish policy advisor and enemy of liberal internationalists. But a very different picture e…Read more
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15East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East AsiaPrinceton University Press. 2000.Is liberal democracy a universal ideal? Proponents of "Asian values" argue that it is a distinctive product of the Western experience and that Western powers shouldn't try to push human rights and democracy onto Asian states. Liberal democrats in the West typically counter by questioning the motives of Asian critics, arguing that Asian leaders are merely trying to rationalize human-rights violations and authoritarian rule. In this book--written as a dialogue between an American democrat named De…Read more
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8Confucian Political Ethics (edited book)Princeton University Press. 2007.For much of the twentieth century, Confucianism was condemned by Westerners and East Asians alike as antithetical to modernity. Internationally renowned philosophers, historians, and social scientists argue otherwise in Confucian Political Ethics. They show how classical Confucian theory--with its emphasis on family ties, self-improvement, education, and the social good--is highly relevant to the most pressing dilemmas confronting us today. Drawing upon in-depth, cross-cultural dialogues, the co…Read more
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6Une perspective confucéenne sur les droits de propriétéRevue de Philosophie Économique 24 (1): 67-93. 2023.Tout au long de l’histoire de la Chine, les confucéens se sont opposés au contrôle rigoureux du gouvernement légiste et ont mis en garde contre les effets négatifs de l’intervention de l’État dans l’économie. Cela ne s’est toutefois pas traduit par l’approbation d’un régime de droits de propriété privée sans entraves. Du point de vue confucéen, l’État a l’obligation de garantir les conditions du bien-être matériel de base de la population et celle-ci est prioritaire sur la promotion du marché li…Read more
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