Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Far East, Southeast Asia, The Pacific))--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010. / Thesis Advisor(s): Miller, Alice L. ; Second Reader: Chakwin, Mark. "June 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 15, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Confucianism, Confucian ideals and values, PLA modernization, PLA professionalization, PLA Core Military Values. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-60). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in electronic version.

Thesis (S.T.M.)--Yale Divinity School, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-95).

Although there has been substantial progress toward gender equality, great disparities still persist. Across the globe, women face widespread gender gaps in the division of household responsibilities, economic resources, limited access to educational opportunities, and legal and political barriers to political power. Japan is one of the countries that has been falling behind, and has for several years been facing criticism from major international organisations for the persistent gender gaps in its economy, politics, and society. Furthermore, Japan has for a long time been influenced by Confucian tradition where the emphasis has been on strong gender norms and division. In 2013, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched new economic policies to restart and stimulate Japan’s economic growth. He encourages an increase of active inclusion of women’s participation, and his policies came to be widely known as “Womenomics”. The ambition of this paper is to discover Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s view on women’s role in his new policies, and to conduct a dimension analysis on “Womenomics”. The analysis is based on the theoretical framework of Confucianism and Liberal Feminism, to see whether one can discover elements of Confucianism and/or Liberal Feminism in “Womenomics”. The results indicate that the prime minister consider women’s role mostly in regards to economics, and the policies and the view on women’s role are foremost aligned with the political ideas of Liberal Feminism.

Partant d'un triple constat, à savoir l'importance de la démarche de "Supply Chain Management" (SCM) dans le management, la nécessaire prise en compte de la culture dans la mise en œuvre de cette démarche de gestion et une première évocation de la cohérence entre la culture chinoise et le SCM, l'objectif de notre recherche est d'analyser la mise en œuvre du SCM dans le contexte culturel chinois.La première partie de cette recherche a pour objectif tout d'abord d'effectuer une revue de littérature permettant de définir des conditions comportementales pour la mise en œuvre du SCM, d'étudier le concept de culture et les éléments culturels chinois puis, d'émettre des propositions de recherche ainsi que de construire un modèle conceptuel.La deuxième partie vise à développer la méthodologie en Sciences de gestion et à justifier notre choix à propos des méthodes de recherche mobilisées dans le travail empirique. Pour cela, nous avons mis en place un travail de terrain par une analyse qualitative de données recueillies lors d'entretiens semi-directifs et basée sur une observation de longue durée.Au travers de ces analyses, il en résulte que les éléments culturels chinois sont positivement corrélés aux conditions de la mise en œuvre de la démarche de SCM. / Based on a triple observation, namely the importance of Supply Chain Management approach in the management, the necessary taking into account of the culture for the implementation of this approach and a first impression of the accordance between the Chinese culture and the SCM, our research aims to analyze the SCM implementation in the Chinese cultural context.The first part of this resarch is designed for a litterature review which allows defining behavioral conditions for SCM implementation, analyzing the concept of culture as well as Chinese cultural elements, and then putting forward theoretical propositions and constructing a conceptual model.The second part intends developping the methodology of Management Science and explaining our choices of research methods mobilized in empirical analysis. After that, we realize the fieldwork through a qualitative analysis of dates collected from semi-directive interviews and a long period observation.Based on these analyses, we conclude that Chinese cultural elements positively correlate with conditions for SCM and the Chinese culture is a favorable context for SCM implementation.

This study explores the patriarchal unconscious underlying the Korean horror genre through a critical feminist psychoanalytical reading of the family dynamics and female agency in three landmark texts, namely, The Public Cemetery under the Moon (Kwon, Chul-hwi, 1967), Mother's Han (Lee, Yusup, 1970) and Woman's Wail (Lee, Hyuksu, 1986). By closely examining these horror film texts using insights from feminist psychoanalytic approaches and situating the texts within historical events and popular culture in the Park Chung Hee era, this study produces an understanding of the cultural dilemmas of women's desire and agency, and especially those of mothers. These textual analyses demonstrate that Confucian virtues, especially as been reinvented under Park Chung Hee's leadership to facilitate developmentalist goals, have formed the roots that shape the mother-child relationship into one that both parties want to dissolve. Through placing the cinematic representation of the monstrous feminine within a historical understanding of Korean horror cinema, this dissertation also demonstrates that the sacred, perfect image of the mother as it is known in Korean popular culture today is in fact historically produced formation within the genre. Besides, with Woman's Wail, a very characteristic Confucian female monster is discussed, namely, the mother-in-law. With this very rare type of the female monster, the misogynistic gender politics within Confucian patriarchy is saliently represented. The feminist psychoanalytic discussion on the spectatorship focuses on the interplay between the image and the Confucian female spectator. In a close reading of the two women's desires in The Public Cemetery under the Moon, this study explores the ways in which the female spectator may find visual pleasures in Korean horror cinema and the ways in which they are communicated and negotiated vis-à-vis the matrix of gender politics in Confucian culture. Taken together, this work demonstrates how the Confucian value system re-invented in the Park Chung Hee era has been a crucial apparatus for women's oppression, and at the same time, how women's agency is nonetheless evinced despite the strictures of Confucianism.

abstract: This thesis examines the relationship between political culture, Confucian intellectuals, and the rise of a new intellectual and cultural paradigm during the early to mid-Ming dynasty (1368 – 1644). The main goal of this thesis is to supplement current scholarship on Chen Xianzhang’s 陳獻章 (1428 – 1500) life as an intellectual of Cantonese origin and his political activities at both local and national levels. Furthermore, the thesis supplements current research on the Yangming School and the School’s contribution to the revitalization of private academies during the Ming with a study on the relationship between the three Confucian intellectuals enshrined in 1584 and the revival of private academies from the perspective of political history. In analyzing the relationship between these various aspects of the Ming political and intellectual landscapes, the thesis uses the 1584 Confucian Temple enshrinement, which involved Wang Yangming 王陽明 (1472 – 1529) and his two older contemporary Confucian intellectuals, Chen Xianzhang and Hu Juren 胡居仁 (1434 – 1484), as an entry point to explore the dynamics behind the political and cultural changes at the time. It aims to investigate the issue of cultural power versus imperial power, the central-versus-peripheral narrative in Ming politics, the evolution of how cultural power was asserted by members of the Confucian tradition, and the manifestation of such evolution in response to contemporary political discussions. The author begins with an analysis of the revival of private academies (shuyuan 書院) during the mid-Ming, and the influence of Chen Xianzhang and Hu Juren in this revival. He then dissects the relationship between the revival of private academies and the emergence of jianghui 講會 (discussion gatherings) in the following decades. Finally, the thesis discusses the struggle of mid-Ming intellectuals in gaining cultural legitimization for both private academies and jianghui activities by urging the imperial court to give due recognition through enshrining Wang, Chen, and Hu in the Confucian Temple, and the historical significance of this struggle to the development of the Confucian tradition in the Ming. The author ultimately argues that Chen Xianzhang, contrary to the common perception about him being a philosopher-poet who was indifferent to political discourses, was in fact a politically active intellectual; and that Chen’s contributions to the revival of private academies in Guangdong predated that of Wang Yangming in the Jiangnan region. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Asian Languages and Civilizations 2016

Centrée sur les rapports de Zhu Xi (1130-1200) et Lu Jiuyuan (1139-1193), lettrés-fonctionnaires de la dynastie Song généralement perçus comme des représentants majeurs de ce qu’on appelle le « néoconfucianisme », cette étude fait fond sur les acquis de l’histoire intellectuelle de la période pour proposer une perspective nouvelle sur les formes de controverse dans la Chine traditionnelle. En partant d’une description pragmatique des propos et actions de ces lettrés, ainsi que d’une traduction originale de certains des textes que ceux-ci produisent et pratiquent, on s’y efforce, à rebours des approches objectivantes, de s’en tenir strictement au point de vue indigène. La description des règles présupposées par les acteurs permet de dégager un système de valeurs conscientes, qui hiérarchise le sens autour de l’idée de « savoir » et interroge en retour notre conception moderne du savoir. La compréhension profonde de cet ordre du sens réclame la formulation d’une anthropologie adéquate, dont on trouve l’inspiration dans les concepts et la méthode de Louis Dumont et qui conduit ici à un essai d’anthropologie du savoir. Au plan analytique, cette perspective d’ensemble manifeste sa productivité dans le surcroît d’intelligibilité qu’elle apporte quant à la relation de Zhu Xi et Lu Jiuyuan, et plus largement quant aux dynamiques collectives qui traversent leurs rapports. Au plan disciplinaire, elle confirme l’importance du regard anthropologique pour l’histoire de la Chine, et en retour le caractère précieux de la sinologie pour l’anthropologie. / By focusing on the relations between Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan, two scholar-officials of the Song dynasty generally seen as major representatives of what is often called “neoconfucianism”, this dissertation uses the insights of the intellectual history of the period to propose a new perspective to study the patterns of controversy in traditional China. Taking as a starting point both a pragmatic description of the words and deeds of these two literati and an original translation of some texts they produce and put into practice, it attempts to stick to an emic point of view against any objectivist bias. The description of the assumptions of the actors (i.e., the rules that pattern their speech and actions) enables us to reconstruct a system of conscious values hierarchized under the idea of “knowledge”, and thereby puts into question our modern conception of knowledge. In order to achieve a deep understanding of this order of meaning, one needs to elaborate a suitable anthropology, for which the concepts and method developed by Louis Dumont have proved to be of fundamental value, leading to an attempt at an anthropology of knowledge. On an analytical level, the overall perspective we propose contributes to the intelligibility of the relation between Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan, and, more generally, to the collective dynamics underlying this relation. On a disciplinary level, it confirms both the importance of an anthropological approach for the understanding of Chinese history and, in return, the importance of sinology as a source of precious insights for anthropology.

A proposta deste trabalho é examinar a tradução dos Clássicos Chineses realizada pelo missionário português Joaquim A. de Jesus Guerra S.J. (1908-1993). Nossos objetivos principais serão: a) caracterizar as diferentes posições no debate entre Joaquim Guerra e James Legge (eminente missionário e sinólogo escocês do séc. XIX) quanto a interpretação do confucionismo; b) elucidar, do ponto de vista da sinologia, aspectos decisivos da tradução de Joaquim Guerra, em particular a tradução do caracter Tian [] como \"Deus\" a qual se abre como chave hermenêutica para a interpretação universalizante do tradutor português. / The purpose of this work is to examine the translation of the Chinese Classics conducted by the Portuguese missionary Joaquim A. de Jesus Guerra S.J. (1908-1993). Our main objectives are: a) to characterize the different positions in the debate between Joaquim Guerra and James Legge (eminent Scottish missionary and sinologist of nineteenth century) regarding the interpretation of Confucianism; b) to clarify, from the point of view of sinology, key aspects of the translation of Joaquim Guerra, in particular the translation of the character Tian [] as \"God\" which unfolds as a hermeneutical key for the universalizing interpretation of the Portuguese translator.

The great strategic distrust between the two world largest economic and military powers is one of the most debated topics in contemporary international relations. This thesis question if the current hegemon view its new competitor as an offensive or defensive realist state and which policies should consequently be taken. China’s policy of peaceful coexistence and the U.S attempt of global integration may not be fully compatible and the thesis illuminates the contradicting notions of China Confucius values and how they are visible in its foreign policy rhetoric. The thesis conclude by stating that the China’s ambitions in not seen as following the guidelines of a defensive realist state in the eye of the United States and that China’s so called unique characteristics and values are mere rhetoric that does not seem to shape its current foreign policy. The U.S response is so far a passive containment by increasing cooperation with other actors in the region as a balancing act while simultaneously cautiously engage and try to influence China to adopt policies fitting a global player and work for peaceful solutions to international problems. Thus China is not seen as either a friend or a foe but is currently viewed as being in a grey area of competitor and cooperator.