A Breakthrough in the Study of Singaporean Confucianism:A Review of The History of Confucianism in Singapore

1.A Sketch of the Book This finely bound and long-prepared volume is a breakthrough in the study of Singaporean Confucianism.It consists of five chapters and one appendix,which exploresthehistoricalevolutionof Singaporean Confucianism.Chapter 1 is an introduction to the book,which outlines the motivation of this study,defines thekeyconceptssuchasSingapore overseas Chinese,Chinese education,and Confucian culture,and reviews the literature on this topic in Singapore and China.The literature review does not limit itself to Singapore;it lists almost allbooksrelatedto“thehistoryof Confucianism”published in other East Asian and Southeast Asian countries as well.