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unusual facts about Confucian



Anarchism in China

Jiang Kanghu, who founded the Chinese Socialist Society in 1911, had been a contributor to the New Era (one of the publications of the Paris Group), and included the abolition of the state, the traditional family structure, and Confucian culture as planks of his parties’ platform.

Boston Confucians

(Philip J. Ivanhoe, Joel J. Kupperman and David B. Wong would fall into this latter category.) Consequently, "Boston Confucian" is a term more closely linked to geography than intellectual content.

Chung-ying Cheng

Professor Cheng's research interests are in the areas of Chinese logic, the I Ching and the origins of Chinese philosophy, Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy, the onto-hermeneutics of Eastern and Western philosophy, and Chan (Zen) philosophy.

Discourses on Salt and Iron

The reformists were largely Confucian scholars who were opposed to the policies of Emperor Wu, and who demanded abolition of the monopolies on salt and iron, an end to the state price stabilization schemes, and huge cuts in government expenditures to reduce the burden of the citizenry.

Four Asian Tigers

Confucian seminars were offered by South Korean companies like Hyundai for company management.

Gwangsan Kim clan

Eminent Neo-Confucian scholars the family has produced during the Joseon dynasty include: Kim Jang-saeng, Kim Jip, and Kim Manjung.

History of Song

A total of seven chapters contain biographies of traitors and rebels including Cai Jing, Huang Qianshan (黃潛善), Qin Hui, Zhang Bangchang (張邦昌) and Liu Yu (劉豫) whilst the four chapters on Confucian scholars feature individuals such as Zhou Dunyi, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Zhang Zai and Zhu Xi

History of the Joseon Dynasty

Village Seowon, which combined the function of Confucian shrines with educational institutions, often reflected the factional alignment of the local elites.

Hua–Yi distinction

The prominent Tang Confucian Han Yu wrote in his essay Yuan Dao the following: "When Confucius wrote the Chunqiu, he said that if the feudal lords use Yi ritual, then they should be called Yi; If they use Chinese rituals, then they should be called Chinese."

Huang Juezi

When the First Opium War broke out in 1839, Huang joined Deng Tingzhen in resisting the British army then later took charge of the Yuzhang Confucian Academy (豫章书院).

Ji Xiaolan

In Ji Yun's late life, he was inspired by Pu Songling's Liaozhai Zhiyi to compile his own collections of remarkable tales, many of which were held to be satirical portraits of prominent Neo-Confucian scholars.

Kaibara

Kaibara Ekken (1630-1714), a Japanese Neo-Confucian philosopher and botanist

Kim Jin-hi

Her selection of the instrument was audacious; dating to the fourth century, the geomungo had been favored particularly by male Confucian scholars, and was generally not played by women.

Lu Wang

Wang Yangming (1472–1529), Ming Chinese idealist Neo-Confucian philosopher, official, educationist, calligraphist and general

Moo shu pork

Additionally, at Chinese Confucian death anniversary celebrations, the Chinese word for "egg" (; pinyin: dàn) is avoided when referring to dishes containing eggs, as many Chinese curses contain this word.

Nanjing University

In the period the faculty members included such scholars and scientists as Zu Chongzhi (祖沖之), Ge Hong (葛洪), Wang Xizhi (王羲之), and students included such figures as Xiao Daocheng, Emperor Gao of Southern Qi who studied in School of Confucian Studies, and Zhong Rong, a founding scholar of poetics who graduated from division of literature.

Oksan Seowon

Oksan Seowon, Gyeongju, Confucian academy and shrine in Gyeongju, South Korea

Political factions in Joseon Dynasty

Village Seowon, which combined the functions of Confucian shrines with educational institutions, often reflected the factional alignment of the local elite.

Shiseibyō

Three memorial steles are located within the temple grounds: one to the Chūzan Confucian temple originally established in the 17th century as a gift from the Kangxi Emperor; one to Sai On, historian, government official, reformed, and royal regent at the time the temple was constructed; and one to Tei Junsoku, magistrate of Kumemura and educational force who established the Meirindō as a center of learning.

Sosu Seowon

Sosu Seowon grew in prestige because it enshrined An Hyang (1243 -1306), a local a Confucian scholar who lived during the end of the Goryeo Dynasty who had brought Neo-Confucianism to Korea from China in the 13th century.

T.R. Reid

His experiences in Japan led him to write Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West, which argued that Confucian values of family devotion, education, and long-term relations, which still permeate East Asian societies, contributed to their social stability.

Tu Weiming

Tu was Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University (1999–2010).

Universal dialectic

Universal dialectic is an ontological idea which is closely related to the Taoist and Neo-Confucian concept of taiji or "supreme ultimate." In the West, dialecticians including Hegel explored themes that some see as remarkably similar, laying the groundwork for unification.

Vietnamese encyclopedias

The first work which was considered as an encyclopedia of Vietnam is an 18th-century book "Vân đài loại ngữ" by Lê Quý Đôn, a Lê Dynasty Confucian scholar.

Weifang

Emperor Shun of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period, the politician Yan Ying of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Confucian scholar Zheng Xuan of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the agriculturist Jia Simiao of the Northern Wei Dynasty were all from Weifang.

Wolfgang Drechsler

He is also especially interested in Non-Western Public Administration (Confucian and Islamic).

Xiaojing

Classic of Filial Piety, or Xiao Jing, Confucian classic treatise giving advice on filial piety

Yakusugi

During the Edo period (1603–1868), Tomari Jochiku, a Confucian monk of the Nichiren sect who had been born in Yakushima and served the Satsuma domain, saw the destitution of the islanders in Yakushima and submitted a plan to cut down yakusugi to the Shimazu clan daimyo.

Zhu Biao

While his father completed his rebellion against the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Biao was generally kept away from the front lines and provided with the most esteemed Confucian scholars of his time as tutors.

Zhu Qinming

However, in 706, he would have a brief downfall -- as he was indicted by the censor Xiao Zhizhong of having hidden a parent's death to avoid serving a mourning period, a severe breach of the Confucian requirements for filial piety -- and was demoted to be the prefect of Shen Prefecture (申州, roughly modern Xinyang, Henan).


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