ABSTRACT
The previous chapter proposing a Confucian idea of citizenship suggests that Confucianism is committed to a world community and could contribute to moving beyond citizenship confined to the nation-state. Such global aspiration is certainly evident in the works of some contemporaiy scholars of Confucianism. IMs chapter examines the interaction between politics and culture within such Confucian global aspirations to illustrate that being a world citizen does not mean being neutral towards or transcending cultures, but is instead rooted in culturally-informed local communications across political and cultural boundaries.
