The anthropologist and the question of the "visibility" of Confucianism in contemporary Chinese society
According to the author, the notion of Confucianism has been used in the 20th century to designate such different and contradictory realities, that one is often tempted to use in only quotation marks. Perhaps it is easy to agree to characterise contemporary China as a post-Confucianism society: whic...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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CEFC
1999
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China perspectives
Year: 1999, Issue: 23, Pages: 65-73 |
| Further subjects: | B
Socioeconomic change
B Theory B Tradition B China B Cultural anthropology B The Modern B Confucianism |
| Summary: | According to the author, the notion of Confucianism has been used in the 20th century to designate such different and contradictory realities, that one is often tempted to use in only quotation marks. Perhaps it is easy to agree to characterise contemporary China as a post-Confucianism society: which means that China is still influenced by a legacy that cannot have competely disappeared, but this legacy has been inevitably shattered and reconstructed by the cataclysms which have characterised Chinese society in this century. The author discusses the anthropologist approach and its limitations, reflections of some young anthropologists from mainland China and other topics. (DÜI-Sen) |
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| ISSN: | 2070-3449 |
| Contains: | In: China perspectives
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