Todai-Yale Initiative Lecture Series – Asian Way of life Seen through AsiaBarometer

In this lecture, based on the AsiaBarometer 2006 which surveyed seven Confucian countries( China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam), several aspects of Asian way of life will be examined. Focusing on the legacy of Confucian virtues in the industrialized and modernized Asian countries, the findings and implications of the comparative analysis about the perceptions of identify, national pride, satisfaction of life, their attitudes in terms of their delight, anger, sorrow and pleasure etcetera will be introduced.