Confucianization: a future in the tradition.(Two Conflicting Views of China's Political Future)

From: Social Research | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Xiaoguang, Kang | Copyright information

WHITHER CHINA?

This question has engaged the attention of China and the world in modern times, and it is all the more urgent and pressing today. Two dominating opinions have taken shape around this question. One holds that the status quo cannot possibly go on for long; the other that China should and certainly will be further "Westernized." But there has appeared a third voice in China in the twenty-first century--"Confucianization," which declares that China's future s...

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