Current affairs note: at first glance, this text seems futile in light of the recent attack by Israel and the US on Iran, one ...

The individual known in the West as Confucius was born Kongqiu in 551 B.C. near Qufu, in eastern China. His family may once have been aristocratic, but they apparently fell on hard times, ...

Philosophy, religion, and literature have been rich resources; so has Confucius, the Eastern sage born circa 551 BCE, who has become synonymous with deep thinking.

The world’s first Confucius Culinary Institute is scheduled to open at UC Davis this fall, revealing the magic and mystery of Chinese cuisine dating back 2,500 years. UC Davis food science ...

Mao Tse-tung, Confucius and Louis Vuitton have been mixing it up lately on China’s most-renowned stage: Tiananmen Square. For decades, Mao’s portrait has hung over the Tiananmen Gate at the ...

By Confucius’s teachings, he complained, ... The scholar and state minister born in eastern China in the 6th century B.C. believed in the transformative power of virtue.

He was born about 372 B.C., and as a youth applied himself to learning. As an adult, like Confucius, he took up a migrant lifestyle for 40 years, and advised a number of different rulers of his day.

He was born in the state of Lu in the middle of the sixth century BCE, a time that the philosopher Karl Jaspers has famously called “The Axial Age,” as it was the time not only of Confucius, but also ...

According to Chinese philosopher Confucius, born on or about this date in 551 B.C., “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ...