This book considers ethical culture in East Asia, examines the impact it has had on economic and social transformation, and explores what effect it might have on solving current problems.

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath is Professor and Permanent Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bejing Normal University, China.

Qian Zhao is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Erfurt, Germany.

Foreword

List of Figures

List of Tables

1. Introduction (Carsten Herrmann-Pillath and Qian Zhao)

Part 1: Intellectual and spiritual sources of ethical life in East Asia

2. IE-MURA-SEKEN and Japanese ethical life in the Tokugawa economy (Kiichiro Yagi)

3. Spiritual origins of ethical life in China's Late Imperial market society: A relational moral universe (Qian Zhao)

4. Ethical life, merchants and the state in Korean society during the Joseon dynasty (Eun-Jeung Lee)

Part 2: Religion, traditional values and ethical life in the economy

5. Cultural entrepreneurship and cooperative enterprises as sustainable and responsible businesses in South Korea (Seungkwon Jang)

6. Re-integration of ethics and economy: Shrines, community, and social entrepreneurship in Japan (Yoshinori Hiroi and Sigrun Caspary)

7. Shareholding cooperatives in Shenzhen and the revival of 'filial piety' as a core value of Chinese ethical life (Jing Cheng, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Ling Li and Man Guo)

Part 3: Community, resilience, and ecology as settings of ethical entrepreneurship

8. Corporate Social Entrepreneurship in times of crisis: Giving back to community in Japan (Masaatsu Doi)

9. Public-minded ethical life of family businesses in Japan and the management of natural resource commons (Toshio Goto)

10. Social Enterprises and the Ecological Revival of Rural Communities in China (Tiejun Wen)

Part 4: Corporate Social responsibility, Government and ethical life in business

11. Corporate Social Responsibility and ethical life of Chinese family business (Xingyuan Feng)

12. Investment, Sustainability Reporting and Evolving Ethical Influences in the Shaping of Social Responsibility: Evidence from South Korea (Hannah Jun)

13. Demographic decline and migrant workers in Taiwan: Social entrepreneurship enacting cultural change (Chun-Hsiao Wang)

Epilogue - Cultural Entrepreneurship in East Asia and the West: A practitioner's perspective (Peter Heller)

Index