Routledge International Handbook of Morality Cognition and Emotion in China

<p>This ground-breaking handbook provides multi-disciplinary insight into Chinese morality cognition and emotion by collecting in one place a comprehensive collection of essays focused on Chinese morality by world-leading experts from more than a dozen different academic fields of study.</p><p>Through fifteen substantive chapters readers are offered a holistic look into the ways morality could be interpreted in China and a broad range of theoretical perspectives including ecological anthropological and cultural neuroscience. Offering a syncretic multi-disciplinary overview that moves beyond the usual western-oriented perspective of China as a monolithic culture research questions addressed in this book focus on morality as represented at the level of the individual rather than at the group or institutional levels. Research questions explored herein include: What are the major contours of distinctively Chinese morality? What was the role of the ancient ecology climate and pathogen load in producing Chinese moral attitudes and emotions? Are ingredients of the good life in China different than ingredients of the good life elsewhere? How are children in China morally educated? How do findings from cultural neuroscience help us understand differences in the treatment of family members or the treatment of strangers in China and elsewhere? How do the protests in Hong Kong participate in or stand apart from the ongoing ethics of protest in historical China? The clear structure and accessible writing offer a rigorous assessment of the ways in which morality can be interpreted shedding light on differences between China and Western cultures. The book also provides a timely window into Chinese forms of morality and the pivotal role these play in social organization family relationships systems of government emotion and cognition. </p><p>Representing fields of study ranging from philosophy linguistics archaeology history and religion to social psychology neuroscience clinical psychology developmental psychology and behavioral ecology this is an essential text for students academics and others with wide interest in Chinese culture.</p>