The World Consortium for Research on Confucian Cultures (WCRCC) is an academic body dedicated to fostering the collaboration among international scholars on Confucian cultures and their application to contemporary social issues. The first biennial conference of the consortium, on the theme “Confucian Values in a Changing World Cultural Order”, was convened at the University of Hawai’i and the East-West Center in 2014.The consortium’s second biennial conference was hosted by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities and Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City under the theme “Confucianism as a Philosophy of Education for the Contemporary World”.