Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), the notion that "heaven is dead" prevailed; Confucian moral concepts and values waned; and, society experienced major turbulence. Philosophers at ...

Archaeological findings also help to further record ancient people's Confucian practices in detail. A group of displayed bamboo slips that were unearthed from a Han Dynasty tomb in Wuwei ...

Notably, toward the end of the nineteenth century, thinkers in the “New Text” movement—so called because it drew on texts written in a new script unveiled by the ancient Han dynasty—explored ways in ...

The earliest biography of the founding father of Confucianism appears in the account of the Han dynasty historian Sima Qian, who claims a venerable ancestry for him; more recent scholarship, however, ...

Also called folk belief or minjian xinyang (民间信仰), Chinese folk religions were recorded as early as the Shang dynasty (c.1600-1046 B.C.E), well before Confucianism and Taoism. Folk religions ...