Kang Youwei's Thought of Reviving Confucianism

Confucianism was confronted with unprecedented crises in modern history. In order to revive Confucianism, Kang Youwei tried to deconstruct its internal structure of Benevolence and Rite and its external structure of State and Rite, and put Western spirits into Confucianism so that he could create a kind of Confucius religion, hoping in this way to make Confucianism independent of despotism and enjoy full revival. By investigating his thought this paper tries to make people have a deeper understanding of Kang Youwei and also offer an approach that can make Confucianism come out with its contemporary transformation.