The sentence vividly summarizes ancient Chinese ... philosophy in "nine genres and 10 schools." At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), the notion that "heaven is dead" prevailed ...

Among the other leading schools of thought are Taoism, which advocates for living in harmony ... of China], turned away from Confucian thinking, but today they have embraced ancient philosophy ...

"What Confucius and the other political philosophers of the day were trying to do, was to devise a philosophy that ... writer and expert on modern China: "Harmony was very important to Confucius ...

The government promotes Confucianism as a tool for social harmony and national identity, while independent movements seek to restore its role as a spiritual and ethical philosophy. But is this ...