For over two thousand years the peoples of China, Korea, and Japan lived mostly at peace with each other ... Buddhism became the principal religion throughout the area; and Confucianism deeply ...

In Japan, even in today's technologically highly advanced society, Confucianism is still alive and is still evolving. Last year, a major event occurred as Japan issued a new set of banknotes for ...

Both Japanese and Korean given names still use kanji and ... thinker Confucius (551BC to 479BC), also known as Kongzi, Confucianism has strong influences on the Sinosphere and is well-known ...

For Chang, Confucianism today remains largely a Han-centric sphere, despite its influence in Japan and South Korea. "To promote Confucianism globally without being perceived as a form of cultural ...

Confucianism is often caricatured as being hierarchical, authoritarian, misogynistic, and dogmatic. I too once shared this view and thought it was concerned exclusively with hierarchies and social ...