Book Review 1 on Confucius Lives Next Door

The Book Review is based on Confucius Lives Next Door upon required course readings that offer contemporary accounts of the lived experience of Confucianism and Islam.

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The first Book Review is based upon required course readings that offer contemporary accounts
of the lived experience of Confucianism and Islam. The reviews call for you to consider the
contemporary expressions of these faiths and to reflect upon their relevance to your own and
our collective societal experience--To consider how central teachings, principals and practices
of these faith traditions could be introduced and implemented into your own life, experience and
American culture so as to lend to your personal and our collective edification. In light of the above description from our course syllabus, your review of T.R. Reids book,
Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living In The East Teaches Us About Living In the West,
ought to consider the following:
Reid and his familys experience of Confucianism/the Confucian ethos during their
residency in Japan in the 1990sAn experience which he describes as East Asias Social
Miracle.
How Confucianism/the Confucian ethos is expressed in contemporary Japanese
cultureIncluding, when relevant/pertinent, consideration and assessment of central Confucian
tenets operative in and experienced by the Reids during their residency in contemporary Japan,
e.g., evidence of the 5 Confucian Virtues (jen, yi, li, chih and hsin); the 5 Confucian Key
Relationships and corresponding 10 Appropriate Attitudes; the Confucian Doctrine of the Mean;
Rectification; etc.
What lessons we can take from the Confucian/Japanese experience that might
contribute to a better social experience in our culture and to the improvement of ourselves as
individuals.
Additionally:
Allow the review to be an occasion by which you reflect upon and consider aspects,
anecdotes and aspects of the book and the experience of the Reids which particularly struck
you in some waypositively and/or negativelyand critically engage and assess why this was
the case. This may lead some to gravitate on issues relevant to education or crime or social
analysis or economics or cultural rites of passage or interpersonal relationships orIn short,
there is freedom for you to pursue points of particular interest to you and/or relevant to your
major