2021
DOI: 10.3390/rel12100819
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“Confucianism”, an Alternative Source of Belief in Contemporary Chinese Society: An Empirical Study of the Founding of Xin 信 in a “Confucian” Company

Abstract: Open claims to Confucian values, often associated with cultural traditionalism and a larger revival of Confucianism among the Chinese population from the 2000s onwards, have gained momentum in the world of entrepreneurs. The intensity of this phenomenon can be explained by a wide variety of motivations, among which a desire to establish a belief, a sort of xin 信 towards traditional values, has emerged from within the “Confucian” company. Based on fieldwork carried out between 2017 and 2018 at TW, a private com… Show more

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“…Against this background, many Chinese people turn back to Confucian ethical values and virtues and identify in them the potential to counteract the effects of moral anomie in the current Chinese society. Here, Confucian education extends far beyond its primary focus on children and potentially applies to all strata of the population; its promotion by religious groups or businesspeople clearly illustrates this point (Ji 2018;Billioud 2020;Jiang Fu 2021). Therefore, actors that the reader will encounter in this special issue -headmasters of traditional schools, teaching staff, parents, and Confucian businessmen (rushang 儒商) promoting educative projects in their own enterprises -largely share a similar critique of society's moral predicament and the same enthusiasm for Confucianism considered a relevant way to escape from moral anxieties.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…Against this background, many Chinese people turn back to Confucian ethical values and virtues and identify in them the potential to counteract the effects of moral anomie in the current Chinese society. Here, Confucian education extends far beyond its primary focus on children and potentially applies to all strata of the population; its promotion by religious groups or businesspeople clearly illustrates this point (Ji 2018;Billioud 2020;Jiang Fu 2021). Therefore, actors that the reader will encounter in this special issue -headmasters of traditional schools, teaching staff, parents, and Confucian businessmen (rushang 儒商) promoting educative projects in their own enterprises -largely share a similar critique of society's moral predicament and the same enthusiasm for Confucianism considered a relevant way to escape from moral anxieties.…”
Section: Editorialmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A body of research based on intensive ethnographic surveys has started to be published on the topic in recent years. It analyses the specificities of Confucian education within the overall framework of Confucian revival (Billioud and Thoraval 2015;Hammond and Richey 2015;Billioud 2018Billioud , 2021; the striking diversity of the pedagogical enterprises carried out in the name of tradition (Elizondo 2021); the links between Confucian education and the making of Chinese citizenship (Wang 2016(Wang , 2020(Wang , 2022c, moral anxieties (Wang 2022b), or utopianism (Gilgan 2022b); and the promotion of Confucian education within religious groups such as the Yiguandao (Billioud 2020) and Buddhist movements (Dutournier and Ji 2009;Ji 2018) or within the corporate world (Jiang Fu 2021).…”
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“…This submission to the norm reveals a process of domination exercised through jiaohua. Although it can be seen that jiaohua sometimes results in the cultivation and far-reaching transformation of the self (Jiang Fu 2021), within the context of a company, this method of education inspired by Confucianism is also, above all, an instrument of management.…”
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confidence: 99%