Professor Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Director of the Institute for Environmental Systems Research; and Assistant Professor Datu Buyung Agusdinata, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability.
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This breakfast event is presented by ANU Crawford School of Public Policy and UNSW Canberra Public Service Research Group.
The interactions and tensions between Western and Chinese ideas and values have a long and complex history. In recent years, however, hostility in China to Western claims about "universal values" has become so intense that they now lead the list of topics that should not be discussed in China. This paper will explore the issue through the lens of the contemporary revival of Confucianism. It will focus on the recent promotion of the universal significance of Zhu Xi's Family Instructions. What might we learn about the struggle over universal values by surveying the claims of Contemporary Confucians in China?
David Vines, University of Oxford.