Situating strategic or hybrid Confucianism(s): Issues and problematics

This commentary reviews the arguments made in An et al.’s ‘Towards a Confucian Geopolitics’. Particularly, I consider main claim that form of strategic and/or ‘hybrid Confucianism’ has played significant role construction contemporary Chinese geopolitics. While accept aspects this argument, also raises further theoretical and empirical issues are immanent within work. draw attention to: (1) concerns relating to historical narrative constructed by authors; (2) problematics recent diversity discourse; (3) questions geographies Confucianism.