Christian, Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim are the only religious identities that are each claimed by at least 5% of Asian American adults. Fewer than 1% of Asian Americans say that their present religion ...

In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we’ll learn about Confucianism and Daoism! A large proportion of Chinese people believe in a god—yet most report they don’t belong to any religion. In this ...

FOR MUCH of its history, Chinese society has been built upon the pillars of Confucianism. Confucius is thought to have been born in 551BC in what is now Shandong province, on China’s east coast. The ...

Confucianism is often caricatured as being hierarchical, authoritarian, misogynistic, and dogmatic. I too once shared this view and thought it was concerned exclusively with hierarchies and social ...

Since the inception of the communist party, China has had contentious relationships with major foreign powers, and its political structure has been under the scrutiny of the international community.

Tying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional economics, “The Laws and Economics of Confucianism” offers an explanation for why Chinese and English pre-industrial economic ...

I was recently asked to give the keynote speech at a festival sponsored by the Institute of Korean Confucian Culture. It was a three-day event celebrating traditional culture in Korea with an emphasis ...