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Harvard University Press recently released Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons, edited by Tu Wei-ming. Mr. Tu, professor of Chinese history and philosophy at Harvard University and director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, led the 1991 Academy conference out of which the volume grew. That conference was the culmination of a study funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. The seventeen contributors to Confucian Tra-