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A Survey of the Confucius Worshipping and Confucian-Classics Reading in the Early Years of the Republic of China

Song Shu-y

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Since the Constitutional Reform Movement of 1898, the Confucius Worshipping and Confucian-classics Reading had been charged by the new culture with dying feudalism. The Republic of China had taken a series of measure to stop Confucius worshipping and Confucian-classics reading. So Confucius and Confucianism lost their public and social justification. At the same time, Yuan Shi-kai made use of the people's attaching of orthodoxy Confucianism and tried to restore monarchy, which finally stirred up the strong anti-Confucian New Culture movement.

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Since the Constitutional Reform Movement of 1898, the Confucius Worshipping and Confucian-classics Reading had been charged by the new culture with dying feudalism. The Republic of China had taken a series of measure to stop Confucius worshipping and Confucian-classics reading. So Confucius and Confucianism lost their public and social justification. At the same time, Yuan Shi-kai made use of the people's attaching of orthodoxy Confucianism and tried to restore monarchy, which finally stirred up the strong anti-Confucian New Culture movement.

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Since the Constitutional Reform Movement of 1898, the Confucius Worshipping and Confucian-classics Reading had been charged by the new culture with dying feudalism. The Republic of China had taken a series of measure to stop Confucius worshipping and Confucian-classics reading. So Confucius and Confucianism lost their public and social justification. At the same time, Yuan Shi-kai made use of the people's attaching of orthodoxy Confucianism and tried to restore monarchy, which finally stirred up the strong anti-Confucian New Culture movement.

Key concepts: Feudalism, China, Orthodoxy, Reading (process), Monarchy, The Republic, Confucian ethics, Philosophy

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