Lionel M. Jensen (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Jensen, Lionel M. “Introduction: Confucius, Kongzi, and the Modern Imagination.” In Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions & Universal Civilization, pp. 3-28. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997.
[In the following essay, Jensen traces the evolution of scholars's understanding of Confucian concepts over the centuries.]
A little more than four centuries ago, a detachment of seamen in service to Philip II of Spain (r. 1556-1598) and a few missionaries of a new order of the Catholic...
Source: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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