The Inheritance and Spreading of Confucianism in Modern China and South Korea

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10.2991/icsshe-19.2019.40How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Confucianism, cultural inheritance and spreading, culture soft power, China, South Korea

Abstract

Confucianism has influenced the regulating of family relations, the maintaining of social order, and the promoting of national spirit for thousands of years in the East Asian cultural circle. Though Confucianism originates in China, it is not inherited and spread as successful as in South Korea nowadays. This study applies the qualitative analysis to investigate the underlying reasons for different situations of Confucian cultural preservation between modern China and South Korea. The findings are (1) compared with China where several radical movements in modern times started from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement have dealt a serious blow to the status of Confucianism, Korean witnessed a rather moderate process of Confucianism development. (2) Korea lays great emphasis on moral education of Confucianism, while academic achievement seems to be prioritized in China’s teaching activities. (3) Korea takes full advantage of mass media to popularize Confucianism, the degree of which hasn’t been realized in China. These practices in Korea shed light on China to better improve the culture soft power embodied in Confucianism in modernization.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ya Xiao
AU  - Jie Hu
PY  - 2019/08
DA  - 2019/08
TI  - The Inheritance and Spreading of Confucianism in Modern China and South Korea
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1061
EP  - 1064
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icsshe-19.2019.40
DO  - 10.2991/icsshe-19.2019.40
ID  - Xiao2019/08
ER  -