Confucius, the venerable sage who lived in the 6th century BC, is enjoying a 21st century revival. His rehabilitators? The Chinese Communist Party. Yes, that party, the one celebrating the 61st ...

In Tiananmen Square last year, when the stolid National Museum of China reopened its doors following a costly renovation, a 31-foot-tall statue of Confucius stood outside. A short while later the ...

The long history of Confucianism in China is one of a philosophy buffeted by change, forever colliding with, and integrating, other schools of thought. Confucianism not only played a role in the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. During the Cultural Revolution, Confucianism was seen as obsolete. Now as the People's Republic of ...

Today we find out whether the most influential philosophical tradition in China, Confucianism, is making a comeback in the world's largest nation. Professor Daniel Bell from Tsinghua University in ...

The Chinese Confucianism Museum in Quzhou, Zhejiang province, is tasked with inheriting and promoting China's treasured traditional culture. The museum opened in September 2016, with the mission of ...

In 2004, China began establishing non-profit public institutions which aims to promote its language and culture in foreign countries. As an educational organization from China, it was named the ...

On the eve of President Donald Trump’s first state visit to China, President Xi Jinping just made a drastic foreign policy reversal. Beijing would now accept South Korea despite China’s previous ...

AT FIRST GLANCE, Huaguoshan kindergarten in Zhuzhou, a city in the southern province of Hunan, looks much like any other nursery. Four brightly painted playrooms have buckets of building bricks and ...