De and Virtue in Early Confucian Texts: Introduction

“Of What Use Are the Odes?― Cognitive Science, Virtue Ethics, and Early Confucian Ethics

Introduction: Five Trends in Confucian Studies

For over a decade, Confucian studies have gone through several evolutions and developments. From 2010 to today, this area has delivered a number of the fine scholars. This special issue of JET will examine the works of those Confucian scholars who have advanced significantly in the last few years in certain genres, and also share our thoughts on where certain tendencies are heading in the near ...

Tradition, Modernity, and the Confucian Revival: An Introduction and Literature Review of New Confucian Activism

Introduction On August 8th, 2008 countless viewers around the globe watched the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. The ceremony included performers representing the disciples of Confucius, chanting quotations from The Analects. The Confucian theme was continued as the performers lifted and lowered individual blocks in a choreographed display. In the end, the blocks formed the Chinese cha...

A Genealogy of Early Confucian Moral Psychology

: metadiscourse in introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics research articles: exploring variation in frequency and type

abstract in written mode of language, metadiscourse markers are used commonly to help writers in general and academic writers in particular to produce coherent and professional texts. the purpose of the present study was to compare introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics articles regarding their use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers based on the model pro...