This article will mostly be read by American eyes, and because American culture is extremely pragmatic and primarily interested in “what will put a dollar in my pocket,” the topic of it, Eastern ...

There are some scholars who claim Chinese philosophy isn't a genuine philosophy, and if it is, they say, it is either too simple or too hard to understand. You will hear similar opinions not only in ...

BEJIING — There’s nothing looney about these toons. Two Chinese media firms have signed a deal with the Confucius Foundation to make a $5.3 million cartoon series on the legendary philosopher’s life ...

The wisdom of the influential philosopher Confucius continues to be reflected upon more than 2,000 years after his death. Born in 551 BCE as Kung Ch’in Chung-ni — later Latinized to Confucius — he ...

As part of the introduction to our ongoing culture series on Chinese soft power and Confucius Institutes, I’ve already touched on the fact that there’s actually very little connection between the ...

The philosophy of Confucius, a great thinker from China's Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC), has inspired today's meteorologists in reacting to the looming climatic disasters likely brought by ...

For more than a century scholars both inside and outside of China have undertaken the project of modernizing Confucianism, but few have been as successful or influential as Li Zehou (b. 1930). Since ...

During former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing’s visit to Qufu, Shandong province in 2004, he recited a few pieces of famous instruction from Confucius in Chinese, such as "devoted and love ...

TWO emerging cults are on display in Qufu, a city in eastern China where Confucius was born. One surrounds the ancient sage himself. At a temple in his honour, visitors take turns to bow and prostrate ...