Open AccessConfucius and Contemporary Guanxi
Author(s) -
Joseph J. Pilotta
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
regioninės studijos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2029-2074
DOI - 10.2478/ijas-2013-0007
Subject(s) - guanxi , china , space (punctuation) , sociology , grasp , doors , epistemology , aesthetics , political science , philosophy , engineering , law , linguistics , software engineering , structural engineering
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