The Tokugawa Shogunate’s adaptation of Confucianism influenced Japanese politics, social structure, and culture, leaving a legacy that persists to this day.
Month: September 2025
Edward Berger’s Conclave (2024) transforms the secretive papal election into a gripping political thriller about faith, power, and human frailty.
In what ways does Judith Butler’s nuanced depiction of queerness in professional wrestling, which employs gender performativity, chart its progression from mockery to empowerment?
Flow (2024) is a contemplative cinematic poem that draws on Confucian principles of related selfhood and challenges Western ideas of individualism by using water as both a symbol and a framework.