Explore: Confucian Civilization

with a broadly Confucian culture—to serve Confucian ends and inculcate Confucian virtues. Other Confucians have criticized Confucian meritocrats like

obligations of society, and thus used to justify the superiority of Confucian civilization. The story can be read as a sardonic attack on traditional Chinese

he calls the "Sinic world", a group of centralized states that share a Confucian ethical philosophy. Reischauer states that this culture originated in

China often received tribute from the states under the influence of Confucian civilization and gave them Chinese products and recognition of their authority

Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook. New York: Free, 1993. Print. Henderson, John B. (1998). The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Neo-Confucian, Islamic

discussion between Confucian scholars in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States. The first generation of new Confucians (1921–1949) came

the history of hierarchical command structures implicit in the Confucian Sinic civilization, as opposed to the individualism and pluralism valued in the

seonbi, who valued the simui greatly, embraced it as a symbol of Confucian civilization, and continued to publish treatise on the simui starting from the

early civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and China, marking the beginning of the ancient period in 3500 BCE. These civilizations supported

The Confucian church (Chinese: 孔教会; pinyin: Kǒng jiàohuì or Rú jiàohuì) is a Confucian religious and social institution of the congregational type. It