The Book of Mencius is a Confucian classical text that has served as a guide for how to conduct oneself in hardship and ...

The “Confucian Gentleman Doctrine,” or the “Way of the Confucian Gentleman ideal,” is a concept I proposed in 2026. The ...

Confucian cosmology was never about superstition. Its real power lay in de-centering authority – binding rulers to a higher standard they couldn’t control. The statue at Fan Zhongyan’s tomb site in ...

Confucianism, once heavily criticized and suppressed during much of the 20th century, has experienced a renewed interest in ...

Qufu, the hometown of Confucius in Shandong province, holds ceremonies on Sunday to commemorate the 2,576th anniversary of the philosopher's birth. [Photo by Yang Guoqing / for chinadaily.com.cn] ...

Across the span of human history, many great thinkers have shone like bright stars, profoundly shaping civilization. Confucius is one of them. Throughout the millennia since his time around the 5th ...

One of the striking elements of “The Governance of China,” a book published this past fall in several languages (including English) by Chinese President Xi Jinping, was his reliance on the “brilliant ...

I have been a student of Korean politics, society, and culture for about 30 years. That is a long time — but nothing compared ...

JEONGEUP COUNTY, South Korea — A pig's head sits on an offering table. Men in light-green robes and black hats pour liquor and light incense. They are venerating a ninth century scholar and poet, Choe ...

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