{"id":148082,"date":"2026-03-18T01:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148082"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:30:07","slug":"rescuing-a-key-confucian-text-from-centuries-of-ignominy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148082","title":{"rendered":"Rescuing a key Confucian text from centuries of ignominy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFrom around the turn of the century, a revived Confucianism was all the rage. Mainland Chinese academia heavily promoted it. Beijing politicised it as compatible with communist ideology. For state propaganda departments, Confucianism was repackaged as a cultural product for foreign consumption.<br \/>\nThat wave of interest subsequently died down, along with the closure of many Confucian Institutes around the world.<br \/>\nSo why study Confucius today? Well, why read any great philosopher? But there is a more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3346837\/rescuing-key-confucian-text-centuries-ignominy?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFrom around the turn of the century, a revived Confucianism was all the rage. Mainland Chinese academia heavily promoted it. Beijing politicised it as&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148082"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}