Business leaders today can learn from China's rich history of philosophy, religion, culture, politics, and military principles over the past 2000 years. Chinese ethical thought has been shaped by ...

Inside a classroom on the campus of Tsinghua University, Tang Wenming is having an animated discussion with 10 doctoral students about the differences between the Greek and Confucian concepts of ...

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 ...

Confucius stands guard at Beijing’s Renmin University. George (Sam) Crane, Author provided In today’s China, the philosopher Confucius is back. To mark his 2,565th birthday this September, the ...

What does it mean when a regime speaks the language of ancient virtue but enforces it through curriculum mandates and ideological scorecards? The opening essay of Simulated Sagehood, a five-part ...

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] ...

Together, believers in Confucianism and Islam account for more than 40% of the world’s present population. This demographic alone is already sufficient to warrant many good-willed initiatives at ...