Confucius and Contemporary Guanxi

• Authors: Joseph Pilotta
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper will analyse what guanxi is in contemporary China and will also answer the phenomenological question of how guanxi is part of contemporary practices of China as well as the practice of Confucian principles. Both are concerned with ritual, rectitude, responsibility and relationships. Their entanglement shares both a functional and aesthetic time-space movement of the ritual cosmology of doors and their significance.

Keywords

EN

Confucius; guanxi; doors; ritual; relationship

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Journal of Area Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 128-149

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2013-12-31

Contributors

author

Joseph Pilotta

• OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/ijas-2013-0007