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This volume is dedicated to Confucian applied ethics. It is the first book to cover the relationship of Confucianism to applied ethics and directly address concrete ethical issues. The applied ethical issues discussed in this volume are topics that are highly relevant and important to the contemporary human condition. They include not only issues that are already familiar to present-day citizens, but also emerging ethical issues brought forth by the latest advancements in science and technology. Topics covered include biotechnology, genetic engineering, healthcare, human enhancement, artificial intelligence, political ethics, market and corporate governance, the environment and sustainability. This volume brings together the intellectual energies and dynamic insights of a diverse group of renowned, senior scholars and accomplished, young researchers from the East and the West. Contributors to the volume investigate, debate and illuminate how Confucian philosophy can meaningfully expand our moral horizon and enhance our ethical reasoning to confront issues that arise in our social and political life. Applying the Confucian lens offers us a refreshing perspective to stretch our moral imagination beyond the all too familiar rights-based ethics, utility-based ethics, rule-based ethics or virtue-based ethics dominant in Western ethical inquiries. This volume appeals to academics, policy makers, students and researchers in the field.