Confucianism

An assembly line of books.1,000 signed this day by Yu Dan, China'spop-philosophy celebrity author.People here can't get enough of her modern-day interpretationsof the teachings of Confucius.She's already sold more than a million copies.A year ago, Yu Dan was an unknown communications

professor.Today she draws crowds of thousands.[SPEAKING CHINESE]The people who listen to my lectures and read my booksare serious about their quality of life.They want to find the answer of what being Chinese really is.Confucius, she argues, would disapproval of disorderlybehaviour like jaywalking, spitting, or littering.

Far from discouraging this return to Confucius,the government is promoting it amid growingpublic dissatisfaction over corruption and unbridleddevelopment.There were more than 87,000 public protests in Chinalast year.This one-year-old private Confucius schoolwas the first in Communist China allowedto discard the teachings of ...