To understand this, you need to understand the history of China, where periods of instability always leads to chaos. For example, the Chinese revolution in 1911 immediately led to the Warlord era where China was carved into multiple fiefdoms engaged in constant civil wars, which in turn created an opening for the Japanese to invade.
Once you understand this, you will understand why China always try to move things conservatively, even to its own detriment at times. You will understand why China preferred Tiananmen Square crackdown even in the face of international media.
For a country with a huge population of 1.4 billion people, losing control of the ability to provide stable livelihood to a billion people can very quickly give rise to disastrous consequences.
I find it interesting that China has been trying to get rid of Confucius since the radical New Cultural Movement (e.g. Chen Duxiu’s “The New Youth” and the May Fourth Movement in the 1910s, blaming the trite conservatism of Confucianism for the failure of the Qing empire to modernize and subsequently allowing China to fall victim to colonial exploitation.
Late stage Mao also tried to get rid of Confucianism during the Cultural Revolution. But it the end Confucius always make a come back. He has stood the test of time for thousands of years.
I suppose that Confucianism is partly to blame, it’s the respect of ancient values and traditions at pretty much all cost. It’s very ingrained in Chinese culture.
Mao should’ve followed the example of Wang Anshi, who introduced Legalist concepts and principles into the imperial bureaucracy while calling himself a Neoconfucian. There’s the criticism by Confucians that the imperial dynasties were never actually Confucian (外儒内法), and I mostly see post-Mao CPC continuing the tradition of giving the airs of a Confucian society without actually being a Confucian society.
Pretty fucking funny considering Confucius is like the father of Conservatism. The OG “it was better before”.
Seriously why Confucious? He invented reaction before there was anything to react to.
For China, stability above everything else.
To understand this, you need to understand the history of China, where periods of instability always leads to chaos. For example, the Chinese revolution in 1911 immediately led to the Warlord era where China was carved into multiple fiefdoms engaged in constant civil wars, which in turn created an opening for the Japanese to invade.
Once you understand this, you will understand why China always try to move things conservatively, even to its own detriment at times. You will understand why China preferred Tiananmen Square crackdown even in the face of international media.
For a country with a huge population of 1.4 billion people, losing control of the ability to provide stable livelihood to a billion people can very quickly give rise to disastrous consequences.
So it’s more Confucious as an emblem of continuity than Confucious as a grouchy old misogynist?
Yeah afaik
I find it interesting that China has been trying to get rid of Confucius since the radical New Cultural Movement (e.g. Chen Duxiu’s “The New Youth” and the May Fourth Movement in the 1910s, blaming the trite conservatism of Confucianism for the failure of the Qing empire to modernize and subsequently allowing China to fall victim to colonial exploitation.
Late stage Mao also tried to get rid of Confucianism during the Cultural Revolution. But it the end Confucius always make a come back. He has stood the test of time for thousands of years.
I suppose that Confucianism is partly to blame, it’s the respect of ancient values and traditions at pretty much all cost. It’s very ingrained in Chinese culture.
Mao should’ve followed the example of Wang Anshi, who introduced Legalist concepts and principles into the imperial bureaucracy while calling himself a Neoconfucian. There’s the criticism by Confucians that the imperial dynasties were never actually Confucian (外儒内法), and I mostly see post-Mao CPC continuing the tradition of giving the airs of a Confucian society without actually being a Confucian society.