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A direct line can be drawn from Confucianism to the institution of civil service examinations around the world.Confucianism = the teachings of the Chinese philosopher, Confucius (circa 551-478 BC)
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The wife should obey the husband; this, according to the Three Bonds of Confucianism.† (source)
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In China, comparably, where the humanistic, moralizing force of Confucianism has fairly emptied the old myth forms of their primal grandeur, the official mythology is today a clutter of anecdotes about the sons and daughters of provincial officials, who, for serving their community one way or another, were elevated by their grateful beneficiaries to the dignity of local gods.† (source)
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He believed that everything had to fit li, the Confucian conception of order and propriety, and nothing in the universe could be exempt from it.† (source)
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The Confucian parables warn of it.† (source)
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My father, a Confucian of high order, would commend me for finally honoring that which is wholly evident.† (source)
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I also understood that two Confucian ideals ruled our lives.† (source)
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Jim's mother had come from South Korea—a grandfather had served as a minister to the last Korean king—and she had studied at Union Theological Seminary with Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich and become a Confucian scholar, and ended up for many years a housewife in Muscatine.† (source)
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There were also, it appeared, a Taoist and a Confucian temple further along the valley.† (source)
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Then the old man, sitting erect, said, "Take me to the Confucian temple," and there he sat, erect and calm, and there was that in his calmness which allowed no question, so that Wang started forward as he saw others do, although he had no faintest knowledge of where the Confucian temple stood.† (source)
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"It could also be a throwback to Confucian principles of family," GaoLing added, "a wish to return to the time of emperors."† (source)
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But I can imagine my father saying his no, no, it was clearly Kwang's Confucian training at work, his secular religion of pure hierarchy, his belief that everyone is at once a noble and a servant and then just a man.† (source)
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We will follow Confucian instruction as found in The Women's Classic by behaving as good women.† (source)
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The Confucian replied, "That is my trouble, I cannot find it."† (source)
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Then the old man, sitting erect, said, "Take me to the Confucian temple," and there he sat, erect and calm, and there was that in his calmness which allowed no question, so that Wang started forward as he saw others do, although he had no faintest knowledge of where the Confucian temple stood.† (source)
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I assumed Baeh was honoring the traditional Confucian structure of community, where in each village a prominent elder man heard the townspeople's grievances and arbitrated and ruled.† (source)
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