Confucianism

Dominic Barton’s appointment as Canada’s ambassador to China has always been sharply criticized by the Conservatives due to his deep business ties with China as the former head of global consulting firm McKinsey.

In a new book, Professor He Huaihong proposes a new social ethics for a society that many observers, both in and outside China, say is in a state of moral crisis.

In classical China, “ritual” or “etiquette” encompassed the entire spiritual pantheon, of which music was a part.

In today’s China, the philosopher Confucius is back. To mark his 2,565th birthday this September, the nation’s president Jinping, paid homage to the sage at an international conference convened for the occasion. “Confucianism,” Xi said, is key to “understanding the national characteristics of the Chinese as well as the historical roots of the spiritual world of the present-day Chinese.”