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! === Contradiction with modernist values === {{See also|New Culture Movement}} In the [[New Culture Movement]], [[Lu Xun]] criticised Confucianism for shaping Chinese people into the condition they had reached by the late [[Qing dynasty]]: his criticisms are expressed metaphorically in the work "[[Diary of a Madman (Lu Xun)|Diary of a Madman]]", in which traditional Chinese Confucian society is portrayed as feudalistic, hypocritical, socially cannibalistic, despotic, fostering a "slave mentality" favouring despotism, lack of critical thinking and blind obedience and worship of authority, fuelling a form of "Confucian authoritarianism" which persists into the present day.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-11-23 |orig-date=1918 |title=The True Story of Lu Xun |url=https://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/ |access-date=2022-08-26 |website=ChinaFile |language=en}}</ref> Leftists during the [[Cultural Revolution]] described Confucius as the representative of the slave-owning class.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 20, 2005 |title=The evil life of Confucius |url=https://people.reed.edu/~brashiek/syllabi/Poster/running.html#:~:text=2.,%E2%80%9COld%20Number%20Two%E2%80%9D%5D. |archive-url=https://perma-archives.org/warc/20240121070125/https://people.reed.edu/~brashiek/syllabi/Poster/running.html#:~:text=2.,%E2%80%9COld%20Number%20Two%E2%80%9D%5D. |archive-date=21 January 2024 |access-date=January 21, 2024 |website=Reed University |url-status=live }}</ref> In [[South Korea]], there has long been criticism. Some South Koreans believe Confucianism has not contributed to the modernisation of South Korea. For example, South Korean writer Kim Kyong-il wrote a book in 1998 entitled "Confucius Must Die For the Nation to Live" ({{lang|ko|곡μκ° μ£½μ΄μΌ λλΌκ° μ°λ€}}, ''gongjaga jug-eoya naraga sanda''). Kim said that [[filial piety]] is one-sided and blind, and if it continues, social problems will continue as government keeps forcing Confucian filial obligations onto families.<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 September 1999 |script-title=ko:곡μκ° μ£½μ΄μΌ λλΌκ° μ°λ€κ³ ? β μμ¬μ λ |url=http://www.sisapress.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=39088 |access-date=2012-06-10 |publisher=Sisapress.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last={{lang|ko|νλλ μ}} |date=2011-04-18 |script-title=ko:μ§μμ΄ λ¬Ό νλ₯΄λ―μ΄ :: 곡μκ° μ£½μ΄μΌ λλΌκ° μ°λ€ |url=http://zerocdh.tistory.com/97 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415153841/http://zerocdh.tistory.com/97 |archive-date=15 April 2012 |access-date=2012-06-10 |publisher=Zerocdh.tistory.com}}</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