Systemic Suppression: The CCP’s Silent Elimination of Alternative Confucianism
The most subversive threat to Xi Jinping’s regime may not come from liberalism but from Confucianism: not the curated slogans…
The Elimination of Remonstrance: From Confucian Conscience to Organizational Discipline
Once enshrined in censorial offices and Confucian statecraft, jian – the duty to correct one’s ruler – was a channel…
Legal Minimalism: How the Notion of Sentience Disappeared From Chinese Law
In classical Chinese law, cruelty disrupted cosmic order and sentience carried moral weight. Under Xi Jinping, legality has been restructured…
Erasing Confucian Cosmology: How Harmony Lost Its Soul
Confucian cosmology once bound rulers to an order they could not command, linking virtue, ritual, and the rhythms of Heaven.…
Bureaucratized Confucianism: How Tradition Became a Tool of Control in China
China Power | Society | East Asia Values once rooted in moral constraint, like filial piety, virtue, and ethical cultivation, are being refitted to…