Confucianism is often caricatured as being hierarchical, authoritarian, misogynistic, and dogmatic. I too once shared this view and thought it was concerned exclusively with hierarchies and social ...

Description: The role of Confucianism in the development of East Asian Cultures has only recently begun to be fully appreciated. Even with this recognition, there is still little understanding of the ...

Adapted from the 16th-century fantasy novel Investiture of the Gods written by the Ming dynasty ... Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, including deities, demons, immortals and spirits.

Anti-Catholics at the time argued that begging God for mercy deprived followers ... or dynastic retribution (Confucianism). Ferdinand Verbiest, one of the most important Chinese missionaries ...

Adapted from the 16th-century fantasy novel Investiture of the Gods written by the Ming dynasty ... Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, including deities, demons, immortals and spirits.