The pragmatic Confucian approach to tradition in modernizing China

This paper explores the Confucian veneration of the past and its commitment to transmittingthe tradition of the sages. It does so by placing it in the context of the historicaltrajectory from the May Fourth attacks on Confucianism and its scientistic, iconoclasticapproach to “saving China,” to simil...

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Main Author: TAN, Sor-hoon
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2547
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3804/viewcontent/TAN_2012_History_and_Theory__1_.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English