Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions & Universal Civilization

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Summary: A ridiculous thesis that furthers euro-centricism
Review: Jensen's thesis is that the concepts that later Neo-Confucianist scholars and philosophers attribute to him are later interpolations of Jesuit missionaries is insulting and inaccurate.

One need only read the court documents from the Tang dynasty (618 to 907 CE), far before any missionaries (except Buddhist missionaries from India) travelled to the lands of China, to see the monumental impact that the ideas of Confucius had on imperial Chinese culture.

This should go along side the many texts of historical revisionism (such as those scholars who believed the Jewish Holocaust never occured).

If you want to read the truth regarding Confucianism read professor Wing-Tsit Chan's