By Confucius’s teachings, he complained, people were to abide by the sage’s ethical precepts with no method of enforcing them beyond moral persuasion, preventing proper rule of law from ...

Confucius, born in 551 BC in Qufu in eastern China's Shandong province, was a great teacher and philosopher whose theories have been a dominant ideology in China for more than 2,000 years.

Confucius was rehabilitated in the 1980s, but the current generation of leadership has embraced his ideas to such an extent that some scholars believe President Hu Jintao to be a closet Confucian ...

TWO emerging cults are on display in Qufu, a city in eastern China where Confucius was born. One surrounds the ancient sage himself. At a temple in his honour, visitors take turns to bow and ...

The man widely known in the English language as Confucius was born around 551 BCE in today’s southern Shandong Province. Confucius is the phonic translation of the Chinese word Kong fuzi, in which ...

Confucius, born in 551 BC, was a great philosopher whose thought held sway as orthodox ideology in China for more than 2,000 years.

Two Chinese media firms have signed an agreement with the Chinese Confucius Foundation to make a cartoon series on the ancient philosopher's life and teachings. Shandong Radio and Television ...