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Modern Chinese intellectual history was dominated by rejection and criticism of much of Chinese traditional culture and thought in general and of Confucianism in particular (Lin 1979). “Down with the Confucian school” (dadao kongjiadian) was one of the slogans of the all-powerful May Fourth Movement in which Chinese intellectuals embraced Western science and democracy and saw China’s Confucian heritage as an obstacle to its modernization and quest for power and wealth in competition with the nations of the world. Chinese communism, which was subsequently triumphant in giving rise to the People’s Republic of China, was one of the products of the May Fourth tradition of radical anti-traditionalist thought. So was Chinese liberalism, which however failed to exert significant influence on Chinese politics and society in the mainland, or on the island of Taiwan during the authoritarian era of one-party rule by the Nationalist Party.
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Chen, A.H.Y. (2011). Three Political Confucianisms and Half a Century. In: Fan, R. (eds) The Renaissance of Confucianism in Contemporary China. Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1542-4_13
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