Linda Kelly has written
several books on the political and social life of
eighteenth century Franco - British relations and she returns to this theme in her forthcoming book in the New Year, Talleyrand in London The Master Diplomat's Last Mission (I B Tauris).
This is a concept of person that contrasts starkly with the discrete, self - determining individual, an artifact of
eighteenth - and nineteenth -
century Western European approaches to modernization that has become closely associated with liberal democracy.Examining the meaning and value of Confucianism in the twenty - first
century, the contributors — leading scholars from universities around the world — wrestle with
several key questions: What are Confucian values within the context of the disparate cultures of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam?