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In 1921, at the high tide of the New Culture Movement’s iconoclastic attack on Confucius, Liang Shuming 梁漱溟 resonantly predicted that in fact the future world culture would be Confucian. In the following nine decades, Liang’s reputation and the fortunes of Confucianism in China have risen and fallen together. Is it possible that a reconstituted “Confucianism” might become China’s spiritual mainstream and a major constituent of world culture?
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Alitto, G. (2015). Reconstituting Confucianism for the Contemporary World. In: Alitto, G. (eds) Contemporary Confucianism in Thought and Action. China Academic Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47750-2_1
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