Ethical leadership is needed more than ever in today's corporate and political global landscape. The media reports numerous examples daily of inappropriate ethical behaviour by corporations and ...

Confucian ethics, rooted in the teachings of Confucius, emphasises interpersonal harmony, moral rectitude and social responsibility. Core virtues such as ren (benevolence), yi (righteousness), li ...

IN a world where alliances shift rapidly and disputes over territory, trade, and influence dominate headlines, can moral integrity become a nation’s strategic advantage? History demonstrates that ...

Together, believers in Confucianism and Islam account for more than 40% of the world’s present population. This demographic alone is already sufficient to warrant many good-willed initiatives at ...

Confucian cosmology was never about superstition. Its real power lay in de-centering authority – binding rulers to a higher standard they couldn’t control. The statue at Fan Zhongyan’s tomb site in ...

What does it mean when a regime speaks the language of ancient virtue but enforces it through curriculum mandates and ideological scorecards? The opening essay of Simulated Sagehood, a five-part ...

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 ...

Confucius stands guard at Beijing’s Renmin University. George (Sam) Crane, Author provided In today’s China, the philosopher Confucius is back. To mark his 2,565th birthday this September, the ...

This article will mostly be read by American eyes, and because American culture is extremely pragmatic and primarily interested in “what will put a dollar in my pocket,” the topic of it, Eastern ...