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Confucius and Contemporary Guanxi
Confucius and Contemporary Guanxi

Author(s): Joseph Pilotta
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: Confucius; guanxi; doors; ritual; relationship

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 128-149
  • Page Count: 22