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Modernization of Confucianism: An Ethnographic Observation of Cultural Promoting Community

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  • Zhu Xing Yu

    (School of Journalism and Communication Tsinghua University Beijing, 100084 Beijing, China)

  • Chhachhar Abdul Razaque

    (School of Journalism and Communication Tsinghua University Beijing, 100084 Beijing, China)

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China is becoming one of the super powers in the world and the Chinese government is trying to promote Confucianism, the core philosophy of East Asia to the rest of the world in order to strengthen its soft power. As modernization is becoming the global process since the Cold War, the modernization of Confucianism is as well under process to fit in the new era. This article is based on a case of Confucianism promoting project to study the process and effect of cultural modernization and test how modernization helps the promotion of traditional Chinese culture. Such as, 1. The modernization will trigger voluntary and involuntary changes of the culture. 2. Cultural modernization will create a common language with other culture background people that are helpful in order to better understand Chinese traditional culture. 3. Different cultural background people are more sensitive to their own cultural elements even modernization combines various factors of traditional and modern culture or foreigner and local culture.

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  • Zhu Xing Yu & Chhachhar Abdul Razaque, 2017. "Modernization of Confucianism: An Ethnographic Observation of Cultural Promoting Community," Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, Sciendo, vol. 8(2), pages 137-146, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:vrs:mjsosc:v:8:y:2017:i:2:p:137-146:n:5
    DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2017.v8n2p137
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