The basic narrative of world history says that all regions besides Europe, and later the United States, lived in what was ...

A manuscript of commentaries about Confucianism written apparently between the sixth and early seventh centuries in China was confirmed in Japan, a discovery one scholar described as “invaluable.” ...

Daniel A. Bell, a Canadian political theorist specialising in Confucianism and China’s political meritocracy, is chair of political theory at the University of Hong Kong’s law faculty.

Confucius would likely urge a fundamentally different conception of “winning” or “success.” Victory in an exemplary ...

This design is called here “Confucian system.” Rather than to build based on liberal economics “capitalist system,” recent China is rebuilding “Confucian system.” Drawn from ancient teachings, ...

"To understand China today", he says, "you have to understand its past." In his first lecture, he's going back two and a half thousand years to Confucius, a man whose thoughts and ideas permeate ...