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- Title: Unlikely Bedfellows? Confucius, The CCP, and the Resurgence of Guoxue (World IN Review) (Chinese Communist Party )
- Author : Harvard International Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 352 KB
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Confucius has become China's biggest celebrity. Enjoying an unprecedented revival of interest from China's population, he has also become the country's cultural ambassador to the world: his words adorned the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony, his teachings are being studied by millions of Chinese from all backgrounds, and his physical spirit itself is being revitalized through the acting of international movie star Chow Yun-Fat in a soon-to-be released, government-supported film on his life. In other words, Confucius is being resurrected. Even more significant, this resurrection is occurring in the backdrop of a national resurgence of interest in guoxue, or "national learning," the study and appreciation of traditional Chinese history, culture, arts, and literature. It is hard to believe that just a little over thirty years ago, Confucius was vilified by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the Cultural Revolution. His teachings were denounced as oppressive remnants of China's feudal past. Confucian intellectuals were persecuted. Indeed, traditional Chinese culture itself was attacked through the "smash the Four Olds" campaign, which aimed at stamping out the traces of China's old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Confucius became the symbol of, in the eyes of the CCP, a tyrannical and backward "old China." Not only was he rejected on an intellectual level, he also faced very physical destruction. Mao's Red Guards swarmed through Confucius's hometown of Qufu in Shandong province, destroying thousands of cultural relics. The government aimed for a complete and total eradication of Confucius and the historical China he represented.
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