Bureaucratized Confucianism: How Tradition Became a Tool of Control in China
What does it mean when a regime speaks the language of ancient virtue but enforces it through curriculum mandates and ideological scorecards? The opening essay of Simulated Sagehood, a five-part series, traces how Confucianism has been reconstructed, not as a living tradition, but as a calibrated instrument of bureaucratic control.
Through textbook reform, propaganda choreography, and institutional........© The Diplomat
