Confucianism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===In modern times=== Important military and political figures in modern Chinese history continued to be influenced by Confucianism, like the Muslim warlord [[Ma Fuxiang]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MJzB6wrz6Q4C&pg=PA251 |title=Intellectuals in the modern Islamic world: transmission, transformation, communication |publisher=Routledge |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-415-36835-3 |editor-last=Stéphane A. Dudoignon |location=London |pages=250, 375 |editor-last2=Hisao Komatsu |editor-last3=Yasushi Kosugi}}</ref> The [[New Life Movement]] in the early 20th century was also influenced by Confucianism. Referred to variously as the Confucian hypothesis and as a debated component of the more all-encompassing Asian Development Model, there exists among political scientists and economists a theory that Confucianism plays a large latent role in the ostensibly non-Confucian cultures of modern-day East Asia, in the form of the rigorous work ethic it endowed those cultures with. These scholars have held that, if not for Confucianism's influence on these cultures, many of the people of the East Asia region would not have been able to modernise and industrialise as quickly as [[Singapore]], [[Malaysia]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Taiwan]], [[Japan]], [[South Korea]] and even [[China]] have done. For example, the impact of the [[Vietnam War]] on Vietnam was devastating, but over the last few decades Vietnam has been re-developing in a very fast pace. Most scholars attribute the origins of this idea to futurologist [[Herman Kahn]]'s ''World Economic Development: 1979 and Beyond''.<ref>{{Citation |last=Hicks |first=George |title=Economic Development in East and Southeast Asia: Essays in Honor of Professor Shinichi Ichimura |date=1990 |page=25 |editor-last=Seiji Naya |chapter=Explaining the Success of the Four Little Dragons: A Survey |publisher=Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, and Honolulu: East-West Center |isbn=978-981-3035-63-8 |editor2-last=Akira Takayama}}{{pb}}{{cite journal | last1 = Hofstede | first1 = Geert | last2 = Harris Bond | first2 = Michael | year = 1988 | title = The Confucius Connection: From Cultural Roots to Economic Growth | url = http://www2.seminolestate.edu/falbritton/Summer%202009/FHI/Articles/Hofstede.confucious%20connection%20120505%20science%20direct.pdf | journal = Organizational Dynamics | volume = 16 | issue = 4| pages = 124–5 | doi = 10.1016/0090-2616(88)90009-5 | pmid = 4640478 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130626043702/http://www2.seminolestate.edu/falbritton/Summer%202009/FHI/Articles/Hofstede.confucious%20connection%20120505%20science%20direct.pdf |archive-date=26 June 2013 }}</ref> Other studies, for example Cristobal Kay's ''Why East Asia Overtook Latin America: Agrarian Reform, Industrialization, and Development'', have attributed the Asian growth to other factors, for example the character of agrarian reforms, "state-craft" ([[state capacity]]), and interaction between agriculture and industry.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kay |first=Cristóbal |year=2002 |title=Why East Asia overtook Latin America: Agrarian reform, industrialisation and development |url=http://homes.ieu.edu.tr/~ibagdadi/INT230/Christobal%20Kay%20-%20Why%20East%20Asia%20Overtook%20Latin%20America.pdf |journal=Third World Quarterly |volume=23 |issue=6 |pages=1073–1102 |doi=10.1080/0143659022000036649 |s2cid=154253600}}</ref> Historical and current Confucianists were and are often environmentalists<ref name=":0" /> out of their respect for ''tian'' and the other aspects of nature and the "Principle" that comes from their unity and, more generally, harmony as a whole, which is "the basis for a sincere mind".<ref name=":9">{{Cite book |title=World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts |publisher=[[Paragon House|Paragon House Publishers]] |year=1995 |isbn=978-1-55778-723-1 |editor-last=Wilson |editor-first=Andrew |edition=1st paperback |location=St. Paul |page=19}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page