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Article: Confucianism for modern persons in dialogue with Christianity and modernity.
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- Journal of Ecumenical Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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I. The New Confucian Paradigm
Confucianism is old, very old, decrepit and rigid, blocking the advance of modern thought, science, and democracy. That is why it was totally dismissed in the land of its origin, China, in the 1911 overthrow of the Ching Empire and the anti-Confucian May Fourth Movement (1919). True! But, also true is the fact that at the same time the New Confucianism Movement (though the name appeared only in 1941) was launched, (1) it is now in its "third generation," even beginning to move on to its fourth. New Confucianism (to be distinguished from, though in continuity with, the Neo-Confucianism of the Sung [960-1279], Ming [1368-1644], and ...