Neo-Confucianism in Chinese Children’s Books
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2003vol13no2art1288Keywords:
Chinese children's literature, Mao Zedong, neo-Confucianism, Confucianism, patriotism, Cultural RevolutionAbstract
A new leadership fell back on the concept of patriotism as the main plank of post-Mao ideologies following the death of Mao Zedong and the end of the Cultural Revolution. Translations of a number of neo-Confucian texts are discussed along with the principles of Confucianism and their deployment in contemporary Chinese texts, considering that Confucianism was reintroduced as a strategy of stabilization, after the turmoil of the 1980s and the suppression of the democracy movement.
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