Jiaohua Chinese Ideas and Practices of Moral Transformation

Chapters “Jiaohua through Humanistic Buddhism: Integrating Transcendence with Worldly Matters” and "Jiaohua through Humanistic Buddhism: Integrating Transcendence with Worldly Matters" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Chapter 1. Reconstructing Confucianism as an Edification (Jiaohua) Tradition: A New Trend in China’s Contemporary Confucian Revival.- Chapter 2. The Scripture on Great Peace: A Daoist Approach to the People’s Edification.- Chapter 3. Buddhist Jiaohua: Edification and the Practice of Buddhist Storytelling.- Chapter 4. Jiaohua through Humanistic Buddhism: From Master Taixu to Master Xingyun.- Chapter 5. Moral Cultivation in the Chinese Legal System: Contradiction or Complementary Relationship?.- Chapter 6. Jiaohua in Ming Collections of Gong’an Short Stories: Law, Punishment, and Popular Conceptions of Justice.- Chapter 7. Theatre as a Conveyor of the Way: Moral Education and Transformation through Mulianxi in Premodern China.- Chapter 8. Tool of Domination or Road to Subjectification: Rethinking Jiaohua in a Modern and Contemporary Confucian Context.- Chapter 9. Confucianism, Legalism and Jiaohua: Competing Traditions in Chinese Higher Education.- Chapter 10. Two Visions, Two Talks: Jiaohua in Mao’s Yan’an Talks and Xi’s Beijing Talks.- Chapter 11. Jiaohua: Shaping People’s Mind through Education in the Xi Jinping Era.

Yingjie Guo is Professor in Chinese Studies. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Shanghai International Studies University, China, and Ph.D. from the University of Tasmania, Australia. His research focuses on China's cultural nationalism and Chinese cultural identities and the discourse of class in post-Mao China. He is Author of Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary China: Searching for National identity under Reform and Co-Author of Nationalism, National Identity and Democratization in China. His recent publications include Unequal China: Political Economy and Culture Politics, Handbook of Class and Stratification in the People’s Republic of China, and Local Elites in Post-Mao China.