Confucianism

The New Confucianism stream of the Confucianism timeline.

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Modern

1958

New Confucian Manifesto

In 1958 four scholars in exile from the mainland, Tang Junyi, Mou Zongsan, Xu Fuguan, and Zhang Junmai, published a manifesto for the reappraisal of Chinese culture, declaring that the Confucian tradition carried living resources for democracy and science rather than obstacles to them. The document founded the movement called New Confucianism, which carried the teaching through the twentieth century's anti-Confucian decades.

Hong Kong and Taiwan
2000s

Contemporary Confucian revival

In the two-thousands the tradition the republic and the revolution had condemned returned to public honor: classics reading for children, Confucius Institutes carrying the master's name abroad, state ceremony at Qufu, and scholars debating political Confucianism in the universities. The revival is contested, between state sponsorship and independent scholarship, and it is still unfolding.

China and the diaspora