In the past two decades, Confucian political theory has rapidly established itself as one of the most vigorous subfields of political theory, obliterating the image of Confucianism as a relic of the “feudal” age and the single greatest obstacle to East Asia’s modernization. Of course, Confucianism as a set of intellectual ideas or as a world religion has long been incorporated into modern education since East Asia’s full-scale “encounter with the West” in the late nineteenth century.