China's leaders rediscover Confucianism: "Confucius said, 'Harmony is something to be cherished,'" President Hu Jintao noted in February 2005. A few months later, he instructed China's party cadres to build a "harmonious society."
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International Herald Tribune
Daniel A. Bell
Published: Thursday, September 14, 2006
BEIJING — Marxism no longer serves as Chinese society's guiding
ideology. But that doesn't mean the end of ideology. Western experts
hope liberal democracy will fill the void, but they will have "joined
Karl Marx," as the Chinese used to say, before that happens.
In China, the moral vacuum is being filled by Christian sects, Falun
Gong and extreme forms of nationalism. But the government considers
that such alternatives threaten the hard-won peace and stability that
underpins China's development, so it has encouraged the revival of
Confucianism.
Like most ideologies, however, Confucianism can be a double-edged
sword.
"Confucius said, 'Harmony is something to be cherished,'" President Hu
Jintao noted in February 2005. A few months later, he instructed
China's party cadres to build a "harmonious society." Echoing
Confucian themes, Hu said China should promote such values as honesty
and unity, as well as forge a closer relationship between the people
and the government.
The teaching curriculum for secondary schools now includes teaching of
the Confucian classics, and several experimental schools have been set
up that focus largely on the classics. Abroad, the government has been
promoting Confucianism via branches of the Confucius Institute, a
Chinese language and culture center similar to France's Alliance
Française and Germany's Goethe Institute.
For the government, the promotion of Confucian values has several
advantages. Domestically, the affirmation of harmony is meant to
reflect the ruling party's concern for all classes. Threatened by
rural discontent - according to official figures, there were 87,000
illegal disturbances last year - the government realizes that it needs
to do more for those bearing the brunt of China's development.
Internationally, the call for peace and harmony is meant to disarm
fears about China's rapid rise.
How does Confucianism resonate in society at large? At some level,
especially regarding family ethics, Confucian values still inform ways
of life. Filial piety, for example, is still widely endorsed and
practiced: Adult children have a legal obligation to care for their
elderly parents.
Many intellectuals have turned to Confucianism to make sense of such
social practices and to think of ways of dealing with China's current
moral and political predicament. But their interpretations of
Confucianism often diverge from official ones.
Perhaps the most influential contemporary Confucian thinker is Jiang
Qing, author of "Political Confucianism," in which he argues that for
contemporary China, political Confucianism is more appropriate than
Western-style liberal democracy.
Jiang could not develop the institutional implications in that book.
In a Taiwanese publication, however, he puts forward an interesting
proposal for a legislature that includes representatives of Confucian
elites, of elites entrusted with the task of cultural continuity, and
of the people. In an article widely distributed on the Web, he argues
for the establishment of Confucianism as a state religion (as with
state religions in Britain and Sweden, other religions would not be
prohibited).
Intellectuals have also been applying Confucianism to foreign policy.
Confucians favor rule by moral example and oppose the use of force to
promote morality. Hence, Confucian intellectuals were severely
critical of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. But here, too,
interpretations of Confucianism may diverge from official ones. The
idea that Taiwan should be reintegrated into the mainland by being
threatened with invasion and bloodshed is far removed from Confucian
ideals.
Perhaps the biggest challenge to the government is the Confucian
emphasis on meritocracy. The Confucian view is that political leaders
should be the most talented and public-spirited members of the
community, and the process of choosing such leaders should be
meritocratic, meaning that there should be equal opportunity for the
best to rise the top.
Historically, Confucian meritocracy was implemented by means of
examinations, and there have been proposals to revive and update
Confucian examinations for contemporary China. Again, there is an
obvious challenge to the government: Objectively measured performance
on an exam, rather than party loyalty, would determine who occupies
what government post.
If Confucianism shapes China's future, it won't look like Western-
style liberal democracy, but neither will it look like the status quo.
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