Confucius as a reformer

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Kang Youwei
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Confucius as a reformer (short for: Chinese  孔子 改制 考 , Pinyin Kǒngzǐ gǎizhì kǎo , W.-G. Kung-tzu kai-chih k'ao  - "Study / investigation into Confucius as a reformer") is a work published in 1898 by the Chinese philosopher and reformer Kang Youwei (1858-1927). It comprises a total of twenty-one juan .

The writing explains Kang's view that Confucius was deeply concerned with the problems of his time and with reforms when he codified or wrote the Six Classics ( 六 經  /  六 经 , liùjīng ). Change in things, Kang claimed, was one of the main rules that regulated the universe and society. Since Confucius was a reformer, the reform of today's institutions or ideas conforms to the true teachings of Confucius. Apparently, Confucius is evoked by Kang Youwei to advance his own reform goals.

The Confucian scholar Zhu Yixin (1846-1894), for example, accused Kang Youwei of "misusing the name of the sage for a misguided plan to overload China with foreign ideas".

Representatives of the conservative gentry demanded the destruction of the printing plates of his writing.

Kang Youwei's introduction to his writing is contained in the magazine Buren ( 不忍 , Bùrěn ), No. 1 (1913). She was u. a. used by Feng Youlan in the chapter "The New Text School in the Qing Dynasty " of his history of Chinese philosophy .

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Yi易, Shu书, Shi詩, Li禮, Yue樂, Chunqiu春秋. - On the various counts of the Confucian classics , cf. chinaknowledge.de: jing 經, the Confucian Classics .
  2. ↑ cf. the article: "Examination of Master Kong's Reforms", in: Han-Ying Zhongguo zhexue cidian. Kaifeng 2002, p. 198
  3. ↑ after Michael Schuman: Konfuzius: The man and the world that he created. Munich 2016 ( partial online view )
  4. ↑ cf. Andrea Janku: Just Empty Speeches: Political Discourse and the Shanghai Press in China in the Late 19th Century. 2003 p.162
  5. ↑ Vol. II, p.675 in the English translation by Derk Bodde .

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Secondary literature

  • 汉英 中国 哲学 辞典. 开封 2002
  • Zhou Yong: “Creation of Traditional Cultural Curriculum: the Instruction of Analects ”, in: Ding Gang, (Ed.): Selected Essays on China's Education: Research and Review , Volume 3. Leiden, Boston: Brill 2019 ( partial online view )

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Wikisource: 孔子 改制 考  - Sources and full texts
Confucius as a reformer (alternative names of the lemma)
Study of Confucius as a Reformer; Investigation into Confucius as a reformer; Kongzi gaizhi kao; Kǒngzǐ gǎizhì kǎo; Examination of Master Kong's Reforms