To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. While Confucian ideals continue to inspire thinkers and political actors, ...

笔墨纸砚是中国古代文人书房当中必备的宝贝，被称为“文房四宝”。用笔墨书写绘画在中国可追溯到五千年前。秦时已用不同硬度的毛和竹管制笔；汉代以人工制墨替代了天然墨；有了纸张以后，简牍锦帛逐失其用；砚台则随笔墨的使用而发展。 “文房四宝”到宋朝以后特指湖笔、徽墨、宣纸、端砚。可以说文房四宝书写了整个中华文明。

(Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images) On Sept. 28, millions of people across East Asia and around the world will celebrate the birthday of Confucius – the ancient Chinese philosopher and ...

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 ...

A Three Kingdoms (220-280) stone fragment, with Confucian teachings engraved. WANG JING/CHINA DAILY Confucian classics engraved on stones, across several dynasties, demonstrated their status as ...

In a world faced with various challenges, Confucianism is playing an ever important role in addressing them, foreign and Chinese experts and officials said on Friday. "Confucianism has offered the ...

Confucianism originated with ancient necromancers and alchemists, who were similar to the witches in later generations that made sacrifices to gods and ancestors. The most important part of the ...

If yin unnaturally gains the upper hand, order at both the cosmic and social level are endangered. During Han times (202 BCE – 220 CE), both the administrative structure of the centralized state and ...

Confucian thought dates back more than 2,000 ... The original Chinese symbols relate to the concept of a gateway to a relationship and this is a relatively accurate way to think of guanxi.

Maurushat, Alana 2008. The benevolent health worm: comparing Western human rights-based ethics and Confucian duty-based moral philosophy. Ethics and Information Technology, Vol. 10, Issue. 1, p. 11.

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This showed that the tea offered by the emperor, apart from his wine and gift giving, was a symbol to promote Confucian doctrine and ethics, and to encourage education. The emperors also gave a ...