Qingsong Xiang

National Centre for Borderlands Ethnic Studies in Southwest China at Yunnan University, Yunnan 650091,China

DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v6-i6-57

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ABSTRACT

The people of Taiwan have pioneered and developed in Taiwan for 400 years with Confucianism, a Chinese national culture, as their regular proper path. Confucianism, as the mainstream of traditional Chinese culture, has carried many important responsibilities in determining the direction of Taiwan's cultural development. Confucianism in Taiwan after the Restoration has emerged as "official Confucianism" and "folk Confucianism" with different orientations of purpose. We interpret "official Confucianism" and "folk Confucianism" through historical narratives, and summarize the experience of the development of Confucian thought in Taiwan since the Restoration, as well as the dialectical imagery between it and tradition and modernization. In the process of modernizing Confucianism in Taiwan after the Restoration, a paradigm shift in research has occurred, i.e., a shift from political interpretation to a literary-historical interpretive research paradigm, and a shift from "discussing politics with history" to "talking about history with history".

KEYWORDS:

official Confucianism; folk Confucianism; Confucianism and modernization

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