Confucianism, Chinese History and Society is a collection of essays
authored by world renowned scholars on Chinese studies, including
Professor Ho Peng Yoke (Needham Research Institute), Professor Leo
Ou-fan Lee (Harvard University), Professor Philip Y S Leung (Chinese
University of Hong Kong), Professor Liu Ts'un-Yan (Australian National
University), Professor Tu Wei-Ming (Harvard University), Professor Wang
Gungwu (National University of Singapore) and Professor Yue Daiyun
(Peking University). The volume covers many important themes and topics
in Chinese Studies, including the Confucian perspective on human rights,
Nationalism and Confucianism, Confucianism and the development of
Science in China, crisis and innovation in contemporary Chinese
cultures, plurality of cultures in the context of globalization, and
comparative study of the city cultures in modern China. These essays
were originally delivered at the Professor Wu Teh Yao Memorial Lectures.
Wu Teh Yao (1917-1994) was an educator, political scientist, specialist
in Confucianism and original drafter of the United Nation's Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.