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Reinventing Confucianism : The New Confucian Movement
Taipei : Ricci Institute of Chinese Studies, 2001
Abstract/Sommario:
In the midst of the turmoil of the 1960s in China the historian Joseph Levenson wrote, in Confucian China and Its Modern Fate, the third volume of his exhaustive trilogy Confucian China and Its Modern Faith: A Trilogy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968): "When Confucianism finally passed into history, it was because history passed out of Confucianism. Intrinsic classical learning, the exercise of divining from canonical historical records how men in general should make his ...; [leggi tutto]
In the midst of the turmoil of the 1960s in China the historian Joseph Levenson wrote, in Confucian China and Its Modern Fate, the third volume of his exhaustive trilogy Confucian China and Its Modern Faith: A Trilogy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968): "When Confucianism finally passed into history, it was because history passed out of Confucianism. Intrinsic classical learning, the exercise of divining from canonical historical records how men in general should make history for all time, lapsed" (p. 100). In his sincere mourning for the passing of the Confucian Way Levenson was premature in judging that Confucianism had passed forever into the museum of cultural history because Dr. Umberto Bresciani, writing about the reinvention of Confucianism, reports that something quite different was happening to Confucianism during the twentieth century.
On January 1, 1958, Zhang Junmai, Tang Junyi, Mou Zongsan, and Xu Fuguan jointly published A Manifesto on Chinese Culture to the World, announcing that Chinese culture, including Confucianism, was not dead and that a reformed Confucian contribution to world civilization was not only possible but was to be applauded. Although some critical scholars doubt that we can use the publication of the manifesto to mark so precisely the beginning of the revival of Confucianism, it has become a commonplace to mention this important document as denoting an important founding moment in the life of the New Confucian movement.
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