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portada Weird Confucius: Unorthodox Representations of Confucius in History
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
238
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781350327528

Weird Confucius: Unorthodox Representations of Confucius in History

Zhao Lu (Author) · Bloomsbury Academic · Hardcover

Weird Confucius: Unorthodox Representations of Confucius in History - Zhao Lu

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Synopsis "Weird Confucius: Unorthodox Representations of Confucius in History"

Spanning antiquity until the present, Zhao Lu analyses the eclectic and fictitious representations of Confucius that have been widely celebrated by communities of people throughout history. While mainstream scholarship mostly considers Confucius in terms of his role as a celebrated man of wisdom and as a teacher with a humanistic worldview, Zhao addresses the weirder representations. He considers depictions of Confucius as a prophet, a fortune-teller, a powerful demon hunter, a shrewd villain of 19th century American newspapers, an embodiment of feudal evils in the Cultural Revolution, and as a cute friend. Zhao asks why some groups would risk contradicting the well-accepted image of Confucius with such representations and shows how these illustrations reflect the specific anxieties of these communities. He reveals not only how people across history perceived Confucius in diverse ways, but more importantly how they used Confucius in daily life, ranging from calming their anxiety about the future, to legitimizing a dynasty, stereotyping Chinese people, and even to forging a new sense of history.

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