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The Canon · No. 069
Neo-Confucianism
Lixue; the School of Principle
c.1050 – 1900 CE · East Asian · Living · China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam
V. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD — c.500 – 1500 CE
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- c.1017–1073 CE Zhou Dunyi; the Supreme Ultimate diagram.
- 1130–1200 CE Zhu Xi.
- <strong>1313 CE</strong> Zhu Xi's commentaries become the required basis of the imperial examinations. From this date until 1905, advancement in China runs through his interpretation of Confucius.
- 1392–1910 CE Korea's Joseon dynasty adopts Neo-Confucianism as state ideology with unusual thoroughness, restructuring family law, inheritance and women's social position along its lines.
- 1472–1529 CE Wang Yangming; the School of Mind challenges the orthodoxy from within.
- 1603–1868 CE Tokugawa Japan adopts Zhu Xi's system (Shushigaku) as official learning.
- 1905 CE Examination system abolished; the institutional base collapses.
- 1919 CE May Fourth intellectuals attack Neo-Confucian family ethics as the root of China's stagnation and of women's oppression.
- 1958–present New Confucianism — Mou Zongsan, Tu Weiming and others — attempts a modern philosophical revival.
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