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This analysis complements Tu's highly acclaimed Humanity and Self-Cultivation: Essays in Confucian Thought as a continued expression of his deepening understanding of Confucianism voiced through various perennial human concerns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTu weaves philosophic, historical, anthropological, sociological, and psychological perspectives into a coherent discussion of the Confucian themes that continue to inspire the modern intellectual mind. 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His many books include \u003ci\u003eNeo-Confucian Thought in Action: Wang Yang-ming's Youth (1976); Centrality and Commonality: An Essay on Chung-yung (1976); Humanity and Self-Cultivation (1979); Confucian Ethics Today: The Singapore Challenge (1984); and Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation (1985)\u003c\/i\u003e. He is on the editorial boards of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Asian Thought and Society; Philosophy East and West; and Chinese Cultural Quarterly. 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The Confucian vision, rooted in the Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese civilizations, has been sustained through more than two millennia of constant social change and holds special meaning for both industrial and socialist East Asia today. Indeed, as a living force defining our humanity and exploring our human potential for authentic self-realization, it addresses evolving concerns of East Asian civilizations with profound implications for the post-modernized world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book, by a leading scholar and thinker of the New Confucian Humanism, offers a panoramic view of the core values of the Confucian intellectual from historical and comparative cultural perspectives. Grounded in sound sinological scholarship, it brilliantly interprets the Confucian project: the formation of a moral community and the embodiment of the Mandate of Heaven in ordinary human existence through authentic self-realization. In the words of the eminent Princeton sinologist, Fritz Mote, through Tu Wei-ming's thought-provoking ideas, \"we are shown what has constituted the life-blood of Confucianism throughout its history, and are led to understand how it still lives. 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