E ver since China’s President, Xi Jinping, first began to claim the reins of power in Beijing nearly two years ago, China watchers have speculated on where he would take the budding superpower ...

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.

This concept of filiality is an example of a bottom-up, popular interpretation of Confucian virtues by citizens in contemporary China.

China on Wednesday held high-profile activities to commemorate the 2,565th anniversary of the birth of ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius. In a key-note speech at the opening of an ...

A modern book of Confucian thought, simplified to make it accessible to the mainstream market, has become a surprise best-seller in China, selling about four million copies. The founder of the weekend ...

China's government, through language centers known as Confucius Institutes, has been doing the same thing, for the same reasons, and at some of the same U.S. universities.

Discover interesting facts about ancient China's rulers, philosophy, and the Great Wall of China.

Why Footbinding Persisted in China for a Millennium Despite the pain, millions of Chinese women stood firm in their devotion to the tradition ...

Chinese internet giant ByteDance has donated 25 million yuan (US$3.4 million) to digitise a national cultural project that is compiling all known Confucius classics, with the help of artificial ...

Given the residual influence of Confucianism, says Songtang Hospice founder Li Wei, the problem of caring for China's elderly is mainly an economic one, not an ethical one.