Moral Crisis and Confucian Resurrection: "New Three-Word Classic" in China
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Chan, Kin-manKeywords
Chinamoral crisis
public morality
civil society
moral education
China
crisis moral
moralidad pública
sociedad civil
educación moral
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Abstract
The transition from state socialism to market socialism in China since 1978 led to a sense of disorientation and moral crisis in the Chinese population which by the mid-1990s the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) attempted to correct. Specifically, the CCP Committee in the region of Guangdong responded by elaborating a new version of the teaching manual Three-Word Classic in order to meet the new social circumstances with a body of specific moral rules based on Confucian philosophy and aimed at the Chinese younger generations. The Party's chief goal was to rebuild the framework of moral behavior ousted by the rapid social changes of the 80s and 90s and which until the reform era was supplied by the official line of the CCP and the ideas nurtured during the Cultural Revolution. The New Three-Word Classic soon became widely popular in the country and allowed schools to teach their students a series of moral rules through the examples of historical figures and events which overall championed patriotism and diligence in learning but failed to address public spiritedness, essential in guiding emerging public life in China.La transición del socialismo de estado al socialismo de mercado en China a partir de 1978 codujo a una sensación de desorientación y crisis moral en la población china que a mediados de la década de 1990 el Partido Comunista Chino (PCC) intentó corregir. Concretamente, el Comité del PCC de la región de Guangdong respondió elaborando una nueva versión del manual de enseñanza Clásico de las Tres Palabras para así responder a las nuevas circunstancias sociales con un conjunto de reglas morales específicas basadas en la filosofía de Confucio y dirigido a las generaciones chinas más jóvenes. El principal objetivo del Partido fue reconstruir el marco de comportamiento moral desbancado por los rápidos cambios sociales de los 80 y los 90 and que hasta la época de la reforma procedía de la línea oficial del PCC y las ideas surgidas durante la Revolución Cultural. El Nuevo Clásico de las Tres Palabras pronto se hizo enormemente popular en el país y permitió que las escuelas enseñaran a sus alumnos una serie de reglas morales a través de ejemplos de personajes y sucesos históricos que en su conjunto abogaban por el patriotismo y la diligencia en el aprendizaje, si bien no consiguió abordar la iniciativa pública, esencial para guiar la emergente vida pública en China.
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(Revista) ISSN 1575-6823
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