TY  - JOUR
T1  - Confucian Religion and Education System in the Kang Youwei’s
Reform Plans (At the Turn of the 19th-20th Centuries)
AU - Radikovna Usmanova, Ilina AU - Evgenevich Martynov, Dmitry AU - Aleksandrovna Martynova, Yulia 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 28
SP  - 6805
EP  - 6808
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.6805.6808
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.6805.6808
KW  - Kang Youwei
KW  -Liang Qichao
KW  - confucianism
KW  -education in China
KW  -Confucian Chapel
KW  -hundred days reform movement of 1898
KW  -Qing dynasty
KW  -Chinese Republic
AB  - This study deals with the views of famous Chinese reformer and founder of modern
neo-Confucianism-Kang Youwei (1858-1927). During the period of the 1890s and during Hundred Days Reform
Movement of 1898 he offered to the emperor the project of establishment the confucian Chapel and giving to
Confucianism the status of official religion. He put forward similar projects immediately after the revolution in
1911. At the same time, he did not separate the plans of establishing confucianism from the reforming of
education system in China. Historical-genetic and comparative-historical methods were used in the research.
The analysis of Kang Youwei’s and his contemporaries’ works shows that the reformer believed the
backwardness of China and inability of the country to compete with the leading Western powers-especially the
United States, Britain and Germany comes from the low moral qualities of the chinese and the imperfection of
education system. Reformation of confucianism on the model of the Christian church and the inclusion of its
values in the education system will help to awake the spirit of the nation and to bring the reforms into action
quickly. The contemporaries called him "Martin Luther of Confucianism." However, the power elites of the Qing
dynasty turned down his projects as radical ones. In 1898-1913 Kang Youwei lived outside China. When he
came back, politicians of Chinese Republic rejected the project of Confucian Chapel as being contrary to the
ideals of republicanism and democracy; Kahn was perceived as a reactionary and conservative. The study is
of interest to researchers of Chinese ideology, religious and education idea.
ER  -