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Confucianism has been revived in many spheres of social life in mainland China. In this age of globalization, Confucianism has to face several challenges including global issues that all states have to deal with together such as global justice, environmental issues, and peace as well as domestic issues such as economic development and social justice. A framework of "left-Confucianism" which may cope with these challenges in a more promising way will be proposed in this paper. It tries to combine the core value of the "original Confucianism" with the socialist values that have had a great impact on China's development over the past century or so. This combination does not merely take socialism as the standard but also takes it equally seriously. In this paper we show how the core value of "Left Confucianism" can help us to think about domestic and global challenge in innovative way. |
