https://www.scmp.com/rss/501435/feed Paul F. Scotchmer has worked for non-profit organisations addressing international affairs, taught at several colleges and universities, and been published on religion and culture in leading magazines and journals. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Soon after becoming general secretary of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping revealed his vision for a more distinctly Chinese direction for his country and has strongly encouraged a renaissance of Confucianism in China. Yet Marxism – a European import – remains the ideological framework of the government. It would seem, then, that China is headed for an internal clash of cultures. Xi's cultural tack is diametrically opposed to that of Mao Zedong, who dismissed Confucianism as a retrograde... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3017929/china-headed-clash-cultures-xi-jinping-fuses-confucius-and-marx?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3017929/china-headed-clash-cultures-xi-jinping-fuses-confucius-and-marx?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Jul 2019 08:10:03 +0000