For 2,000 years, Confucius’s doctrine laid down the code of ethics for proper behavior in China — the way of the gentleman — and now Xi seems to be trying to recreate those Confucian ...

China started to conduct annual commemorations of Confucius from BC 478, the year after his death. This year, commemorations will also be held in Taiwan, Hong Kong and other places in China.

Confucius was a Chinese philosopher, politician, and teacher whose message of knowledge, benevolence, loyalty, and virtue were the main guiding philosophy of China for thousands of years.

China needs a social safety net for its ageing population. Petar Kujundzic/Reuters. Meanwhile, China is also faced with an ageing population. By 2040, 28.1% of the Chinese population will be over ...

China’s massive Confucius cultural project gets AI boost with ByteDance donation. ... Only 30,000 to 40,000 have been fully digitised into text, according to a ByteDance article in 2022, ...

He accepts that it might take time to rehabilitate Confucius after some difficult decades. The understanding of Confucianism was lost in the 1960s, he says, but gradually China is now rediscovering ...

At least 13 U.S. universities have shut down their Confucius Institutes, which are funded by China's government. Critics say the program could be used to recruit spies or steal university research.