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Article: Umberto Bresciani. Reinventing Confucianism: the New Confucian Movement.(Book Review)
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- China Review International
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- March 22, 2003
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Taipei: Taipei Ricci Institute for Chinese Studies, 2001. ix + 652 pp. Hardcover $35.00, ISBN 957-9390-07-x.
In the midst of the turmoil of the 1960s in China the historian Joseph Levenson wrote, in Confucian China and Its Modern Fate, the third volume of his exhaustive trilogy Confucian China and Its Modern Faith: A Trilogy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968): "When Confucianism finally passed into history, it was because history passed out of Confucianism. Intrinsic classical learning, the exercise of divining from canonical historical records how men in general should make history for all time, lapsed" (p. 100). In his sincere mourning for the ...