Confucianism

This article introduces the political thoughts of Confucianism and its collision with liberalism during the Republic of China. Confucianism was characterized by three features: family-based ethics, the cultivation of human virtues, pragmatic political ideology, and the worship of historical traditions. Impacted by both liberalism, these features were transformed into modern ideas. However, because of the pressing appeals of nationalism, the transformation wasn't completely liberal and many residual influences of Confucianism kept their importance. This doomed the failure of liberalism in China.