BEIJING: A team of international experts is to translate the essential books of Confucianism studies, "Five Classics," into nine foreign languages. The "Five Classics," or "Wujing" in Chinese, is a ...

Stephen C. Angle, a professor of philosophy and East Asian studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, is a Confucianist, a follower of the belief system spearheaded 2,500 years ago by Chinese ...

Michael Levitin is a freelance journalist based in Berlin. LAST fall, on the eve of Confucius’ birthday (Sept. 28) and the International Confucius Culture Festival, I visited several of China’s 2,000 ...

The 2015 census released by Statistics Korea presented interesting information about how Confucianism is viewed by the Korean public: unlike people of many other countries who deem it as a philosophy, ...

In ancient China when farming played the most important role in making a living, Huizhou was an exception. In Huizhou, trade and business supplanted farming as the local people's first way of making ...

The basic narrative of world history says that all regions besides Europe, and later the United States, lived in what was called a traditional environment until a fundamental break came when Western ...

President Xi Jinping's tour to the Chinese Confucius Research Institute in Qufu, Shandong Province proves that Confucianism has begun to enter into Chinese political thought, analyst says. On a visit ...

A team of international experts is to translate the essential books of Confucianism studies, "Five Classics," into nine foreign languages. The "Five Classics," or "Wujing" in Chinese, is a body of ...