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Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization (review)

Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization (review) Lionel M. Jensen. Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1997. xix, 444 pp. Hardcover $59.95, ISBN 0­8223­2034­7. Paperback $19.95, ISBN 0­8223­2047­9. In this well-researched book, Lionel M. Jensen offers as his main thesis that it was the pioneer Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci (1552­1610) who invented the name "Confucius" and the term "Confucianism." Other Jesuit missionaries during the subsequent European Enlightenment period and, later, prominent Chinese scholars of the twentieth century then continued this process of "manufacturing" Confucianism by reinventing it to suit the needs of their times--a process that commands both attention and admiration because it involved the virtual creation of a universal civilization that incorporates healthy elements from both Chinese and Western civilzations. So far, the result has been rather insubstantial, but this does not mean that the effort should be abandoned. Indeed, Jensen himself is carrying forward the noble task of manufacturing and reinventing Confucianism. It is hoped that in the next millennium we may succeed in creating a truly ecumenical world and a truly universal civilization. Through the skillful use of concepts and terminology taken from twentiethcentury philology and linguistics, Jensen has made an elaborate attempt to prove http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization (review)

China Review International , Volume 6 (2) – Sep 1, 1999

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Lionel M. Jensen. Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1997. xix, 444 pp. Hardcover $59.95, ISBN 0­8223­2034­7. Paperback $19.95, ISBN 0­8223­2047­9. In this well-researched book, Lionel M. Jensen offers as his main thesis that it was the pioneer Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci (1552­1610) who invented the name "Confucius" and the term "Confucianism." Other Jesuit missionaries during the subsequent European Enlightenment period and, later, prominent Chinese scholars of the twentieth century then continued this process of "manufacturing" Confucianism by reinventing it to suit the needs of their times--a process that commands both attention and admiration because it involved the virtual creation of a universal civilization that incorporates healthy elements from both Chinese and Western civilzations. So far, the result has been rather insubstantial, but this does not mean that the effort should be abandoned. Indeed, Jensen himself is carrying forward the noble task of manufacturing and reinventing Confucianism. It is hoped that in the next millennium we may succeed in creating a truly ecumenical world and a truly universal civilization. Through the skillful use of concepts and terminology taken from twentiethcentury philology and linguistics, Jensen has made an elaborate attempt to prove

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Published: Sep 1, 1999

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