Social experimentation and "popular confucianism": the case of the Lujiang Cultural Education Centre

The multiplicity of initiatives in China today that claim to be inspired by "Confucianism" calls for particular attention to the diversity of their practical application. In this case study, we analyse the formation and workings of a new kind of educational institution: initiated three yea...

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1. VerfasserIn: Ji, Zhe (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Dutournier, Guillaume (BeteiligteR)
Medienart: Druck Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: CEFC 2009
In: China perspectives
Jahr: 2009, Heft: 4/80, Seiten: 67-80
weitere Schlagwörter:B Schule
B Volksrepublik China Anhui Konfuzianismus Religiöse Praxis Religiöse Institution Schule Bildungseinrichtung/Ausbildungseinrichtung Religion
B Religionsausübung
B China
B Religion
B Konfuzianismus
B Bildungseinrichtung
B Religiöse Einrichtung
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Zusammenfassung:The multiplicity of initiatives in China today that claim to be inspired by "Confucianism" calls for particular attention to the diversity of their practical application. In this case study, we analyse the formation and workings of a new kind of educational institution: initiated three years ago in the town of Tangchi (Anhui) by a Taiwanese Buddhist, but nonetheless strongly influenced by Confucian traditionalism, this "Cultural Education Centre" is inventing, somewhere between political control and moral proselytism, a new form of governmentality that could gain widespread acceptance. (China Perspectives/GIGA)
ISSN:2070-3449
Enthält:In: China perspectives